Source: Myanmar Information Management Unit - The dashboard is created by Myanmar Geoinformatics Society, shows updates on rising water levels in Myanmar's main river systems. Link to dashboard: https://themimu.info/river-water-alerts
Myanmar Flood Monitoring Dashboard
Source: Myanmar Information Management Unit - The UN Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) dashboard uses Sentinel-1 radar satellite data to provide projections of likely flood-affected areas using Artificial Intelligence model. Users can select the time period of interest to view Inundated areas...
Kawthoung with Sea Gypsies or Men of the Sea
25 JAN 2021 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - By Kyaw Soe (Kawthoung), Translated by Khine Thazin Han Taninthayi Region, the southern tip of Myanmar, abounds with water, forest and mineral resources. Kawthoung in Taninthayi Region is also well known for the minority Salon (or) Mawken (or)...
Done Island in Myeik to receive local tourists in 2nd week of January
02 Jan 2021 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - Community-based tourism (CBT) will be open in the second week of January with local tourists in Done Nyaung Hmine village on Done island in Myeik District, Taninthayi Region, according to some tour operators. A community-based tourism project ...
National Environmental Policy of Myanmar
Myanmar is blessed with diverse ecosystems, rich biodiversity and bountiful natural resources. The health of these ecosystems is essential for the country's development and the people's wellbeing, given that all economic and social sectors depend on its natural capital. Yet many of our country's nat...
Japan Reveals Full Commitment to Myanmar’s Dawei SEZ
24 Nov 2020 - Source: The Irrawaddy - Japan has decided to invest in the full phase implementation of the Dawei Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in southern Myanmar, Japan's ambassador to Myanmar, Ichiro Maruyama, has told The Irrawaddy in an exclusive interview. The US$8-billion (10.5 trillion) pro...
Rural roads, water supply projects to be implemented in 4 villages of Myeik
17 NOV 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - Two roads for rural commodity transportation, one concrete bridge, five box culverts and two water supply projects will be implemented with the fund of Myeik Township's Department of Rural Development for 2020-2021 financial year. U Kyaw Win N...
Denmark committed DKK35 million to support Myanmar’s 5 year Climate Adaption Programme
17 Oct 2020 - Source: ScandAsia - Coastal communities in Myanmar are extremely vulnerable to the impact of climate change and highly exposed to severe natural weather events such as heavy rain, storm surge, floods and cyclones. To help Myanmar respond to those natural challenges, the Forest Dep...
Taninthayi offshore fishing vessels relying only on Ranong market
1 Oct 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - As all the fishing vessels off the Taninthayi coast depend solely on Ranong market, the businesses may come to a halt from the declining price and weakening demand and marine workers may experience hardships, according to Myanmar Fisheries Fede...
Mangrove restoration, a critical challenge for increasing resilience in Myanmar
With the collaboration of the Netherlands Embassy in Myanmar and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Myanmar, the virtual workshop for the scope of the study on mangrove restoration and increasing resilience in the Ayeyarwady delta was held on 24th September 2020. The workshop was conducted to Present ...
Three killed in tropical storm Noul
22 Sep 2020 - Source: Mizzima - Three people have been killed with over 220 houses destroyed by strong wind, heavy rain and tidal waves due to the tropical storm Noul in three regions of Myanmar in the past four days, an official from the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement told...
ထားဝယ်ခရိုင်အတွင်းရှိ ပင်လယ်ပိုင်း ဒေသအချို့၌ မိုးသက်လေပြင်း ကျရောက်ခြင်းနှင့် ပင်လယ်ဒီရေလှိုင်း ရိုက်ခတ်မှုတို့ကြောင့် ရေကြီးနစ်မြုပ်ခြင်း၊ နေအိမ်များပြိုကျခြင်း၊ လမ်းပိုင်းပြတ်ကျခြင်းများ ဖြစ်ပေါ်
21 SEP 2020 - Source: Eleven Media Group Co.,Ltd. တနင်္သာရီတိုင်းဒေသကြီး ထားဝယ်ခရိုင်အတွင်းရှိ ပင်လယ်ပိုင်းဒေသအချို့၌ မိုးသက်လေပြင်း ကျရောက်ခြင်းနှင့် ပင်လယ်ဒီရေလှိုင်း ရိုက်ခတ်မှုတို့ကြောင့် ရေကြီးနစ်မြုပ်ခြင်း၊ နေအိမ်များပြိုကျခြင်း၊ လမ်းပိုင်းပြတ်ကျခြင်းများ ဖြစ်ပေါ်ခဲ့ပြီး ဒေသခံများကို ဘေးလွတ်ရာ...
16 VMS control centres conducting surveillance of offshore fishing vessels
03 Sep 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - Starting from 1 September 2020, 16 Vessel Monitoring System Control Centres have been conducting surveillance of offshore fishing vessels in Myanmar waters for the ships to comply with vessels monitoring rules set by the Fisheries Department. ...
Fishing industry faces difficulty as its season starts
02 Sep 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - Although the onshore and offshore fishing boats have resumed business at the start of the fishing season, some of the boats have not raised their anchors due to worries about the declining market of this industry."We export all the fish to Ran...
Construction of inshore inspection jetty bridge in Kawthoung to complete in September
01 Aug 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - The construction of inshore inspection jetty bridge necessary for the fisheries sector in Kawthoung will be reportedly completed in this September, according to the Kawthoung District Fisheries Federation (KDFF). The fisheries entrepreneurs co...