07 Jan 2021 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - A private business has introduced floating bicycle rental services near the township development committee office at the bank of Ayeyawaday River in Myitkyina Township, Kachin State. "The services are aimed for fun and fitness of the youth to ...
YRTA operates 4th trip of Yangon-Cocogyun vessel
07 Jan 2021 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - Yangon Region Transport Authority ran the 4th vessel between Yangon and Cocogyun Township yesterday, carrying materials and equipment for electrification and construction works. The ship departed in the early morning from No. 3 Sule Wharf in Y...
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR SUBMISSION OF CONSTRUCTION TENDER
Project Background Lien AID is a Singapore based non-profit organization collaborating with Myaungmya Township Department of Rural Development (DRD) to improve technical solutions for water and sanitation access under its WASH Tech Action Research pilot programme. In 2020, the focus will be on testi...
One-year patrolling project implemented to conserve Ayeyawady dolphins
06 Jan 2021 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - A combined team led by the Fisheries Department conducted a one-year patrolling project on Ayeyawady dolphin conservation to reduce and finally eliminate illegal electrofishing in Ayeyawady River. When the Fisheries Department conducted the pa...
133 of 235 dams in Myanmar have less storage water
06 Jan 2021 - Source: Eleven Myanmar - Of 235 dams across Myanmar, 133 have less storage water, but only one has stopped generating electricity, said Myint Soe, deputy director of the Irrigation and Water Utilization Management Department. "This year, less water flowed to those dams. There are ...
WASH project aims for safer births in Ayeyarwady Region
04 Jan 2021 - Source: Myanmar Times - A five-year project aims to help improve Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) practices in hospitals in five townships in Ayeyarwady Region, said an official of the non-governmental group WaterAid Myanmar. The help is being provided under the project W...
Myanmar migratory bird census to be taken by locals
03 Jan 2021 - Source: Myanmar Times - The Asian migratory bird census which is usually conducted yearly will be taken in collaboration with local communities in Myanmar this year, said Daw Thiri Daewi Aung, executive director at Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Association (BANCA). "Normall...
Few vessels running in Chindwin River cover maritime insurance
02 Jan 2021 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - A few ferries and cargo vessels running in Chindwin River in Sagaing Region are buying the maritime insurance from Myanma Insurance, said U Tin Tun, the deputy officer in charge of Myanma Insurance (Sagaing Region) office. The private entrepre...
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 ...
Local NGO launches online training to promote community-based ecotourism
30 Dec 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - The Fauna & Flora International – Myanmar Programme launched the Zoom Online Training starting from 7 December to promote community-based ecotourism in Indawgyi Lake and nearby areas. "The online training is conducted under three programmes," s...
Join The Webinar "Flood Management from Various Perspectives"
Brief Information The objectives of the webinar are to strengthen the knowledge and awareness of flood management from various perspectives to the participants and to establish a network for the exchange of information related to this webinar's theme. Date - 3 January 2021 (Sunday) Time ...
Best Translation Articles of 2020
Myanmar Water Portal has published around 40 translation articles throughout 2020. We would like to give credit to our translation community members for all of their great effort in each article. We are grateful for the contributions of our translators and our readers. We hope that by these translat...
More Myanmar dams are running dry ahead of summer months
25 DEC 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times - More dams in Myanmar that are supposed to irrigate farms and generate electricity are running low of water and likely to be of little use during the coming summer months. The latest to report low water level is the Myo Gyi dam in Ywarngan township in Shan S...
Pansodan-Dala ferry increases rush-hour services on 28 December
25 Dec 2020 - Source: Global New Light Of Myanmar - Yangon Pansodan-Dala ferry service increased the schedule times to 34 rounds on 28 December to facilitate the passengers' transport and avoid the unnecessary crowd during rush hour. With the coronavirus cases mounting in Yangon Region, ferry servic...
ရန်ကုန်တက္ကသိုလ် ရေနှင့်ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ဆိုင်ရာ ပညာ ဌာန၏ "သင်ယူခြင်းအတွက်သင်ကြားခြင်း" အစီအစဉ် စီမံဆောင်ရွက်ခြင်း
ရန်ကုန်တက္ကသိုလ်တွင် လာမည့်ကာလများ၌ဖွင့်လှစ်ပို့ချသွားမည့် သင်တန်းများ၌ကောင်းမွန်တိုးတက်သော သင်ကြားနည်းစနစ်များအသုံးချနိုင်ရန်ရည်ရွယ်၍ ရေနှင့်ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ဆိုင်ရာ ပညာ ဌာနမှ အားသွန်ခွန်စိုက်ဆောင်ရွက်နေကြပြီးဖြစ်သည်။ ၂၀၂၀ခုနှစ်၊ နိုဝင်ဘာလမှစ၍ The Water Agency၊ ရန်ကုန်တက္ကသိုလ်နှင့် VU Amsterdam တက္ကသိုလ...