Myanmar marine conservation policy workshop held

Source: The global new light of Myanmar,  Date:17th November 2017. A workshop on drafting Myanmar marine conservation policy was held yesterday morning at the Mann Myanmar Hotel in NayPyiTaw.  Forest Department Director General Dr Nyi Nyi Kyaw delivered an opening speech at the opening cer...

Talks on Myitsone dam to continue, says China after minister’s comments

Source: mmtimes, 13 November 2017 China has said it will continue talks with Myanmar over the suspended Myitsone dam, after comments by Construction Minister U Win Khaing that big hydropower projects were no longer a priority, reports said. Big hydropower projects could be "good for the future", Win...

International cruises to Myeik archipelago multiply

Source: mmtimes, 7th November 2017 Eleven more international cruises will arrive at Myeik archipelago from November to the end of March 2018, bringing more than 20,000 visitors to Tanintharyi reigon, U Myint Htwe, deputy director general of the Tourism Ministry told The Myanmar Times on November 6. ...

MoU signed in Rakhine for mega projects

Source: elevenmyanmar, November 1st 2017 The entrepreneurs held a discussion about socio-economic development projects in Rakhine State on October 29, and they exchanged views about the future prosperity of Kanyinchaung economic zone. Kyaw Win, Union Minister of Planning and Finance, also attended t...

Dams threaten Mekong: experts

Source: mmtimes, 26th October 2017 One of the world's greatest rivers is under threat from unregulated activities in riparian countries, including dam construction, which disrupt the river's flow and break down its food chains, experts cautioned.They said that if nothing is done to improve the situa...

Experts warn of more landslides in Mount Popa area

 Source: mmtimes, 25th October 2017 Mount Popa is not likely to erupt, but a tragedy can still occur if the problems that led to a landslide last week are not addressed, experts who conducted investigation in the area warned on Tuesday.  Dr Soe Moe Kyaw Win with the Myanmar Geosciences Soc...

Rivers are invaluable to South East Asia

​Source: mmtimes, 26th October2017 How many different ways can you measure a river? By its length and how many countries it passes through? The volume of water flowing along its course? The number of species it supports? Perhaps the most important – and largely overlooked – measure of a river is its...

50 villages & 1700 acres of land destroyed after Sedawgyi Dam overflows in Region

Source: mmtimes,19th October 2017 Heavy floods triggered by overflowing water at Sedawgyi Dam has devastated some 50 villages and also destroyed croplands. According to local villages, the incident that occurred on October 14 in Madaya township in Mandalay Region, was the worst flood to hit the area...

Yangon factories told to treat water or else

Source: mmtimes, 23th October 2017 The government warned factories to treat their wastewater properly before disposing it into rivers or face penalties, including closure of their facilities.In Yangon Region's 24 industrial zones alone, there are 3474 factories but only 188 have proper wastewater tr...

Clean water for Dala

A project focusing on developing access to clean water has been implemented in seven locations of Dala township, located across Yangon's river from downtown Yangon, which remains underdeveloped. Link: https://www.mmtimes.com/news/clean-water-dala.htmlSource: Myanmar Times Photo: Google

Yangon Water Bus started running on October 7

Source: The Myanmar Times, 9 October 2017 The phase one of Yangon Water Bus started running on October 7 - with five ships - and transportation across the river will further increase, said chair Daw Tint Tint Lwin of Tint Tint Myanmar Company. Yangon Water Bus starts after 3-month delay | The Myanma...

Distilleries under fire over water pollution

Source: Frontier Myanmar, 4 October 2017 Distilleries are coming under increasing pressure from the government and the public to install systems to treat the huge volumes of wastewater they discharge into the environment. Distilleries under fire over water pollution | Frontier Myanmar Distiller...

In Dala, a bridge over troubled water

Source: Frontier Myanmar, 21 September 2017 In Dala, a bridge over troubled water | Frontier Myanmar Port operators are speaking out against a planned bridge linking Yangon with impoverished Dala, but lawmakers say they should have spoken up years ago. https://frontiermyanmar.net/en/in-dala-a-bridge...

တာချီလိတ် မယ်ဆိုင် ချောင်းရေကြီးလို့ မြို့ထဲ ရေလွှမ်း

လွန်ခဲ့တဲ့ ရက်တွေက မိုးအဆက်မပြတ် ရွာသွန်းမှု ကြောင့် ရှမ်းပြည်နယ် အရှေ့ပိုင်း၊ တာချီလိတ် က မယ်ဆိုင် ချောင်းမှာ ရေကြီး ရေတက် ခဲ့လို့ မြို့ပေါ်က အိမ်တွေ ရေနှစ်မြုပ် မှု ဖြစ်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။ အိမ်ထောင်စု ပေါင်း ခုနှစ်ရာကျော် နဲ့ အိမ်ခြေ စုစုပေါင်း ၆၃၂ အိမ် ထိခိုက် ပျက်စီး ခဲ့ရကြောင်း တာချီလိတ် ခရိုင် အုပ်ချုပ်...

Myanmar Floods Displace More Than 130,000

26 July 2017 YANGON — More than 130, 000 people have been displaced by recent heavy rains and subsequent flooding across the country, with two deaths reported, according to the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement. One man drowned in the floods in Hkamti Township, Sagaing Region and a...

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