Have you heard about SUWAS (Sustainable Urban Water and Sanitation – Integrated Processes) program? Have you known that SUWAS is one of the international training programs which enhances the comprehensive capacity building required in improving sustainable urban wash and sanitation functions? With t...
World Toilet Day and Urban Sanitation: Live Streaming Panel Discussion on Global Toilet Day
19th of November is World Toilet Day and the time has come to celebrate the advocacy day to realize more about the importance of sanitation. WASH Thematic Group has arranged an awareness sharing campaign via online live streaming with three panelists who are currently working in respective departmen...
Yangon ports now able to receive bigger ships
02 December 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times 2020 will be the year Yangon River accommodates the largest vessels in its history in terms of size and draft as a result of improved waterways in the river, said Win Myint Aung, Deputy Director-General of the Myanmar Port Authority (MPA). "This year will be ...
A Dramatic Shift in Myanmar Irrigation Water Management - Interview with Nyan Thiha
Myanmar irrigation governance system has been encouraging the indigenous farmers' cooperative participation in water governance in furtherance of equitable and efficient water accessible distribution in agricultural sector. A marvellous accomplishment of establishing user based participatory managem...
Mandalay allocates K280 million to boost potable water supply
01 December 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times The Mandalay government has allocated over K280 million (USD 213,000) to boost the region's water supply to prevent shortage of potable water during the coming summer season, the regional Rural Development Department said. U Soe Than, director of Mandalay Rur...
Myanmar-Korea Friendship Bridge (Dala) Project 20 percent completed
01 Dec 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - The Myanmar-Korea Friendship Bridge (Dala), which crosses the Yangon River and will link Lanmadaw Township to Dala Township in Yangon Region, is under construction, and about 20 per cent of all the construction works have been completed, accor...
Yangon’s Thilawa Port to receive larger ships
01 Dec 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times - The Myanmar Port Authority will permit larger ships with drafts of up to 10 meters to call at the Thilawa Port in Yangon this month, according to its latest announcement. This is expected to enable more containerised cargo throughput at the port and encoura...
Water info-sharing platform launched for Mekong nations
01 Dec 2020 - Source: Ecns - China launched an online information-sharing platform on water resources in Beijing on Monday as part of its efforts to help Mekong River countries address the challenges of climate change. The opening of the website comes as the Lancang-Mekong River Basin faces esc...
Amid Tensions in Myanmar, An Indigenous Park of Peace Is Born
30 Nov 2020 - Source: Yale Environment 360 - BY FRED PEARCE - The Karen people of eastern Myanmar have long fought for autonomy over their lands. In a bold move, they have turned a war zone into a protected area that respects their cultural traditions and looks to save the Salween, one of ...
Representatives of Mekong River countries hail cooperation amid pandemic
30 Nov 2020 - Source: Global Times - Representatives from Mekong River countries applauded achievements brought by the Lancang-Mekong River cooperation mechanism over the past four years, calling it the most vibrant case of establishing a community with a shared future for humanity at the 2020 ...
၂၀၂၀ ပြည့်နှစ် မိုးရာသီတွင် ရေလှောင်တမံအများစု၌ ရေဝင်ရောက်မှုလျော့ကျခဲ့ခြင်းကြောင့် အချို့သောရေလှောင်တမံများတွင် သောက်သုံးရေတစ်မျိုးတည်းသာ ပေးဝေနိုင်ခဲ့ပြီး နွေစပါးစိုက်ပျိုးရေပေးဝေရန် မလုံလောက်ကြောင်း သိရ
29 November 2020 - Source: Eleven Media Group Co., Ltd. ၂၀၂၀ ပြည့်နှစ် မိုးရာသီတွင် ရေလှောင်တမံအများစု၌ ရေဝင်ရောက်မှု လျော့ကျခဲ့ခြင်းကြောင့် အချို့သောရေလှောင်တမံများတွင် သောက်သုံးရေတစ်မျိုးတည်းသာ ပေးဝေနိုင်ခဲ့ပြီး နွေစပါးစိုက်ပျိုးရေ ပေးဝေရန်မလုံလောက်ကြောင်း စိုက်ပျိုးရေး၊ မွေးမြူရေးနှင့် ဆည်မြောင်း...
Myanmar’s development assistance policy (DAP) seeks support for the Myanmar Sustainable Development Plan
29 November 2020 - Source: Mizzima Myanmar's democratic transition process and opening up of the economy coincided with the increased presence of development partners. Apart from private sector-led development, reliance on external assistance in the form of grants, concessional loans from bilateral ...
CNTIC V-POWER ENERGY (MOTHER VESSEL) arrived at Thilawa Port for power supply project
28 Nov 2020 - Source: Eleven Myanmar - The ship, CNTIC V-POWER ENERGY (MOTHER VESSEL), docked at the no-14 Dolphin jetty in Yangon Thilawa port on the morning of November 26. It is the very first and very large vessel arrived at the Yangon Port. "The vessel will anchor at the port for five years for...
Magway region suffers over 1,800 natural disasters in 5 years
27 Nov 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - Magway Region has suffered 1,865 natural disasters in five years from 2015-2016 to 2019-2020, according to the Magway Region Disaster Management Department. The government provided a K2,714.847 million fund to the residents who are adversely a...
Myanmar to form natural disaster research group
27 Nov 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times - Myanmar will be establishing a new natural disaster research group to be able to conduct intensive and effective studies aimed at mitigating the effects of natural disasters. U Myo Thant, vice chair of the Myanmar Earthquake Committee, said arrangements are...