15 MAR 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - With a growing number of people and changes in lifestyles, the population density has been gradually high in Yangon. When Yangon becomes a densely populated area, it leads to the limited safe drinking water available for the Yangonites to con...
Research needed to manage summer water shortage in rural areas
29 Feb 20 - Source: Global New Light Of Myanmar - Due to warmer temperatures in the summer, droughts and depleting water supply will likely become more common in Myanmar. The water crisis in rural areas every summer highlights the need for better urban planning and management. Last year, the number ...
Framework for establishing environmental flows in the Ayeyarwady
28 FEB 2020 - Source: The Australian Water Partnership - The Australian Water Partnership (AWP) is supporting an Environmental Flows (e-flows) project in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady River Basin (ARB), with the objective of developing an e-flows policy framework for its adoption. There are many fl...
Yangon Water Bus to use Singapore, Thai ferries when service resumes
20 Feb 20 - Source: Myanmar Times - The Yangon Water Bus river transport service has ordered passenger ferries from Singapore and Thailand to replace its old vessels once it resumes operation, the company that runs the line said. Daw Tint Tint Lwin, chair of Tint Tint Myanmar Co., said it has also s...
Thailand firm to build new urban centre with construction ministry
28 Jan 20 - Source: Myanmar Times - The construction ministry inked a deal with a Thai firm to build a US$1 billion "smart city" in northeastern Yangon. The JV agreement - signed last Friday - would pave way to more than 30,000 new jobs and US$60 million in direct tax, the two sides said. The minist...
Clean up, waste clean up……. Saving Yangon river for an hour
River Clean Up Campaign was yearly organized at Botahtaung river front to give a message to the public becoming more aware of river pollution in Yangon river. with the collaboration of the embassy of the kingdoms of the Netherlands and Think Maritime Company limited, volunteers led by Yangon City De...
Japan provides funding for four infrastructure projects
22 Jan 20 - Source: Myanmar Times - Japan announced yesterday that it is providing loans totalling ¥120.9 billion (US$1.1 billion) to Myanmar for four infrastructure projects. Japanese Ambassador to Myanmar Ichiro Maruyama and Myanmar's Deputy Minister for Planning, Finance and Industry U Maung Maun...
Conservationists to conduct census of migratory birds in Myanmar wetlands
06 Jan 20 - Source: Myanmar Times - Conservationists are set to conduct next week a census of migratory birds taking refuge in the country's wetlands to escape the biting winter in their natural habitats. Daw Thiri Dawei Aung, Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Association's (BANCA) managing direc...
Disasters in 2019 highlight need for comprehensive mitigation programme
Myanmar can't escape from natural hazards, with earthquakes, landslides and floods claiming lives and destroying billions of kyat in property and crops. 20 Dec 19 - Source: Myanmar Times - People here are no strangers to earthquakes, with several destructive tremors shaking the country every year. T...
Japanese firms offer to improve Yangon’s water infrastructure
20 Dec 19 - Source: Myanmar Times - Some 22 Japanese companies are to meet with Myanmar companies to explore possible partnerships in the operation and maintenance of the economic capital's water system. The companies will come to Yangon on a public-private partnership mission this month as part of ...
မြန်မာ့ရာဇဝင်ကို ပြောပြမယ့် ဧရာဝတီမြစ်ဝ အနည်များ လေ့လာရေး အပိုင်း ၂
Source: Burmese VOA မြန်မာ့ရာဇဝင်ကို ပြောနိုင်မယ့် ဧရာဝတီမြစ်ဝ အနည်တွေကို ပညာရှင်တွေ စတင် လေ့လာနေကြပါပြီ။ ကမ္ဘာပေါ်မှာ ရှားရှားပါးပါး သဘာဝအတိုင်း ကျန်နေသေးတဲ့ ဧရာဝတီမြစ်ဝကျွန်းပေါ်ဒေသမှာ ဘာတွေ ဖြစ်ပျက်ခဲ့ပါသလဲ။ ဘာအန္တရာယ်ရော ရှိနေပါသလဲ။ ဂျပန်အဏ္ဏဝါ ဘူမိသိပ္ပံနဲ့ နည်းပညာဌာနက ဒေါက်တာမိုးကျော်သူကပြောပြ...
ADB provides $51.2m for all-weather roads in rural areas
15 Nov 19 - Source: Myanmar Times - The Asia Development Bank (ADB) will provide US$51.2 million to upgrade rural roads in Myanmar to become all-weather and climate-resilient, the bank said in a statement released on Tuesday. The bank said in its statement that the funds would be used for 152 kilome...
မြန်မာ့ရာဇဝင်ကို ပြောပြမယ့် ဧရာဝတီမြစ်ဝ အနည်များ လေ့လာရေး အပိုင်း ၁
Source: Burmese VOA သိပ္ပံနဲ့နည်းပညာ (ဒေါ်ခင်မျိုးသက်) မြန်မာ့ရာဇဝင်ကို ပြောပြမယ့် ဧရာဝတီမြစ်ဝ အနည်များ လေ့လာရေး အပိုင်း ၁ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရဲ့ မိခင်မြစ်ကြီးဖြစ်တဲ့ ဧရာဝတီက မြန်မာ့ရာဇဝင်ကို ပြောနိုင်ပါသလား။ ဧရာဝတီမြစ်စီးဝင်ရာ ကမ်းလွန်ပင်လယ်က အနည်ကျကျောက်တွေကို လေ့လာရင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရဲ့ ဖြစ်တည်မှု သမိုင်...
သန့်ရှင်းသောသောက်သုံးရေနှင့် မိလ္လာစနစ် ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်သန့်ရှင်းရေးတို့မှတဆင့် ဘိုကလေးမြို့နယ်ရှိဒေသခံများ၏ လူနေမှုဘဝများတိုးတက်ပြောင်းလဲလာ
အခြေခံပညာဉီးစီးဌာန၊ ကျေးလက်ဒေသ ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရေး ဉီးစီးဌာန နှင့် လီယန်အိဒ် (Lien AID) တို့မှ ပြည်သူလူထုစီမံခန့်ခွဲသော ရေရရှိရေးအစီအစဉ်မှတစ်ဆင့် အကောင်အထည်ဖော်ခဲ့သော ရေနှင့် ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်သန့်ရှင်းရေးဝန်ဆောင်မှုများအားကျေးရွာ ၅ ရွာမှ ဒေသခံ ရပ်မိရပ်ဖများနှင့် ကျောင်း ၂ ကျောင်းမှ ကျောင်းအုပ်များထံ လွှဲပ...
Improving community well-being in Bogale Township with clean water and sanitation
Department of Basic Education, Department of Rural Development, and Lien AID handover water and sanitation services established through the Community Water Management programme to villager leaders and school administration from 5 villages and 2 schools 3,833 people have convenient and affordable acc...