26 Aug 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times - Flood warnings have been issued for people living on the riverbanks and in the low lands of the Thanlwin, Chindwin and Ayeyarwady rivers. U Kyaw Moe Oo, director general of the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology, said water run-off is flowing from the ...
Myanmar — Flooding Hits Kayin State
26 Aug 2020 - Source: Communal NewsLocals told reporters that floodwaters had been flowing into the area since the evening of August 24 and were now rising up in some areas.According to locals, relief camps are being set up at places such as Islamic charity schools.The water level in Hpa-an is 750 c...
သံလွင်မြစ်ရေကြီးခြင်းကြောင့် ရှမ်းပြည်နယ် တောင်ပိုင်းနှင့် မြောက်ပိုင်းတို့တွင် ရေကြီးရေလျှံခြင်းများ၊ နေအိမ် ရေနစ်မြုပ်ခြင်းများ ကြုံတွေ့နေရပြီး ရေထပ်တက်မည်ကို စိုးရိမ်နေ
25 AUG 2020 - Source: Eleven Media Group Co.,Ltd. သံလွင်မြစ်ရေကြီးခြင်းကြောင့် ရှမ်းပြည်နယ် တောင်ပိုင်းနှင့် မြောက်ပိုင်းတို့တွင် ရေကြီးရေလျှံခြင်းများ၊ နေအိမ် ရေနစ်မြုပ်ခြင်းများ ကြုံတွေ့နေရပြီး ရေထပ်တက်မည်ကို စိုးရိမ်နေကြောင်း ဒေသခံများထံမှ သြဂုတ် ၂၄ ရက်တွင် သိရသည်။ ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်တောင်ပိုင်း လင်းခေး...
Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Hydropower Sector in Myanmar
This chapter outlines the status of hydropower development in Myanmar. In absence of a hydropower policy or plan in Myanmar, the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) will assess the existing hydropower plants and planned projects in the major river basins and sub-basins. The analysis firstly cov...
Sea hunters migrating to Mon state east coast adding to fisheries troubles
29 APR 2020 - Source: BNI Multimedia Group Nai Banyar Aung — As raft-fishing businesses in the Irrawaddy[Ayeyarwady] region also known as the West Coast experience deforestation and scarcity of fish resources, many big boat operations are setting their sights on the Myanmar East Coast. The journey t...
Wild waters: Ye, Mon State
28 APR 2020 - Source: Frontier Myanmar The latest instalment in our series about wild swimming spots focuses on little-visited Ye in southern Mon State, where we discover shipwrecks, deserted beaches and technicolour sunsets. By DOMINIC HORNER | FRONTIER Ye is very much a victim of its location. Sa...
Ontological politics of hydrosocial territories in the Salween River basin, Myanmar/Burma
Source: Academia Taking the Salween River in Myanmar as a case study, this paper draws on a growing body of hydrosocial literature to analyze the multiple ontologies of water taking each ontology to be constituted of-and enacted within-a human-more-than-human assemblage, the spatiote...
Hpa-an villagers blister after bathing with blackened groundwater
2 MAR 2020 - Source: Myanmar Now - The 500 residents of Karen state's Yedwingone village now depend on the charity of others for clean drinking water. Until recently, each of the 120 households in this village near the state capital Hpa-an got all the water it needed from its own well. Bu...
Mon State a sweet spot for maritime trade, tourism: Picon-Deed
27 Jan 20 - Source: Myanmar Times - Maritime trade and tourism in Mon State can level up with better transport and power supply, according to a property market report.Yangon-based Picon-Deed Property Consultants released its study this month on Myanmar's southern state highlighting how its mineral ...
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...
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...
MP demands a parliamentary enquiry into the landslide in Thae Phyu Kone village
23 Nov 19 - Source: Mizzima - Mon State, Paung constituency lower house MP Mi Kun Chan demanded in a parliamentary session convened on November 22 that an enquiry should be held into the landslide that occurred in Ma Latt hill, Paung Township, Mon State. MP Mi Kun Chan said in parliament session, "I...
The Last Undammed River MASTER
သံလွင်မြစ်သည် ဟိမဝန္တာမှ တရုတ်နိုင်ငံနှင့်မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတို့ကို လွတ်လပ်စွာ ဖြတ်သန်းစီးဆင်းပါသည်။ သိပ္ပံပညာရှင်များက သံလွင်မြစ်အား ရေလမ်းတောများထဲတွင် သဘာဝလျှို့ဝှက်ချက်များကိုဖုံးကွယ်ထားရှိရာ ကမ္ဘာကြီးဂြိုဟ်ရဲ့ ဇီဝမျိုးကွဲများ များပြားစွာတည်ရှိပေါက်ပွါးကြသည့် နေရာတစ်ခုအဖြစ်သိပ္ပံပညာရှင်များကချီးကျူးက...
IFC statement on stakeholder consultation meeting in Taunggyi
The consultation meeting in Taunggyi on September 12 was attended by representatives from relevant government agencies including forest, agriculture, mining, irrigation, water resources utilization, department of natural disaster, department of hydropower implementation and rural development, among ...
DRR -Team arrives in Myanmar to advise on floodings
Source: DSS Water / DRR Team - On 15 September a DRR-Team counting 4 Dutch experts arrived in Myanmar, after DRR-Team has been selected at the beginning of this month. Their objective: a scoping mission related to the floods that hit Myanmar in Mid-August. These floods led to more than 110.000 displ...