World Toilet Day video competition

18 Nov 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times - November 19 is international World Toilet Day, and to mark the occasion in 2020 two organisations are calling on creative talents to produce a three-minute toilet-related videos. The competition is hosted by WASH, an NGO focused on promoting clean water, sa...

Myanmar launches aid policy to align with MSDP

18th November 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times Myanmar's new development assistance policy has been announced by the Ministry of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations. The Myanmar Development Assistance Policy 2020 aims to develop a specific set of policies to make effective use of development assis...

Expressions of Interest to preserve Inya Lake

18th November 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times The Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC) has invited expressions of interest (EOI) to help preserve Yangon's famous Inya Lake. "Local and foreign companies, as well as joint ventures, who would like to assist us in preserving Inya Lake can submit their ...

နိုင်ငံတကာရေကြောင်းကုန်သွယ်မှု၏ ၉၀ ရာခိုင်နှုန်းကျော်ရှိ ရန်ကုန်ဆိပ်ကမ်း၌ လေးနှစ်တာအတွင်း အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာရေယာဉ်ကြီးများ ဆိုက်ကပ်နိုင်သည့် ဆိပ်ခံတံတား ကိုးစင်း တည်ဆောက်ပြီးစီးခဲ့ပြီး ဆိပ်ခံတံတား ၄၂ စင်းအထိရှိလာ

16th November 2020 - Source: Eleven Media Group Co.,Ltd. နိုင်ငံတကာရေကြောင်းကုန်သွယ်မှု၏ ၉၀ ရာခိုင်နှုန်းကျော်ရှိ ရန်ကုန်ဆိပ်ကမ်း၏ ရန်ကုန်ဧရိယာနှင့် သီလဝါဧရိယာတို့တွင် လေးနှစ်တာအတွင်း အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ ရေယာဉ်ကြီးများဆိုက်ကပ်နိုင်သည့် ဆိပ်ခံတံတား ကိုးစင်း တည်ဆောက်ပြီးစီးခဲ့ပြီး ဆိပ်ခံတံတား ၄၂ စင်းအထိရ...

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...

ရေ နှင့် စွမ်းအင် ဆက်စပ်မှု (Water-Energy Nexus) များမှ အားပြိုင်မှုများ

"ရေ နှင့် စွမ်းအင် ဆက်စပ်မှုများမှ အားပြိုင်မှုများသည် ရေ နှင့် စွမ်းအင်ဆိုင်ရာ အကောင်းဆုံး စည်းမျဉ်းချမှတ်မှုများကို လိုအပ်လာပေသည်" ကမ္ဘာ့ကုလသမဂ္ဂ၏ ရေရှည်တည်တံ့ခိုင်မြဲသော ဖွဲ့ဖြိုးရေးရည်မှန်းချက်များထဲမှ အမှတ်စဉ် (၆) ဖြစ်သည့် "သန့်ရှင်းသောရေ နှင့် မိလ္လာစနစ်ရရှိရေး" သည် အမှတ်စဉ် (၇) ဖြစ်သော "တတ်နိ...

Victims of Ayeyawady riverbank collapse get cash assistance

16 November 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar Magway Region Chief Minister Dr Aung Moe Nyo and his entourage yesterday handed over cash assistance to 36 households from Kanhla, Zee Kyun and Kyaung Zu Villages, Paukkone Village-tract in Pwintbyu Township, who were evacuated to safe place bec...

Myanmar Water Journal - October 2020

Myanmar Water Journal - October 2020 Welcome to the October edition of the Myanmar Water Journal. Providing you the latest news, insights, opportunities and events from the Myanmar water sector. Spotlights for News based on Water ThemesOctober Newsletter will be filled withA glimpse i...

Construction of Ayeyarwady coastal expressway to start this year

11 Nov 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times - Implementation of the Ayeyarwady Coastal Region Development Project, an expressway connecting Ayeyarwady Region and Rakhine State listed under the Myanmar Project Bank, will start from this fiscal year, according to the Ministry of Construction. The project...

Climate Action Superheroes empower children to protect the planet

09 Nov 2020 - Source: Modern Diplomacy - Eight new animated characters on a mission to protect the planet, have been pressed into service by the UN to empower children worldwide and boost the drive towards sustainability by 2030.  The Climate Action Superheroes are the face of a new campai...

Myanmar’s farmers battle climate and health uncertainty

08 Nov 2020 - Source: UN News - For farmers in Myanmar, the COVID-19 pandemic is adding to growing unpredictability, in a sector already struggling to cope with the effects of climate change. The UN is working closely with the country's government to help them to adapt and thrive. U Cho, a sixt...

Understanding Earth: Our Ocean

07 Nov 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - By Than Htun (Myanmar Geosciences Society) Viewed from space, Earth appears as a blue marble, as approximately 70% of Earth's surface is covered by ocean water. The vast ocean holds roughly 97% of the planet's water and represents 99% of the l...

Pansodan-Dala ferries run 22 routes for increasing commuters

07 Nov 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - Ferries are running 22 routes starting from 5 November because of an increasing number of passengers at Pansodan-Dala jetty, according to the Delta Division of Inland Water Transport (IWT). Earlier, Pansodan-Dala ferry line has reduced its ope...

Indawgyi Lake conserves rare fish species ‘Microphis Dunckeris’

05 Nov 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - Indawgyi Lake conserves the world's rare fish species called Microphis Dunckeris, which inhabit only in Indawgyi Lake in Kachin State in Myanmar, according to Fauna & Flora International (FFI-Myanmar). The FFI Myanmar is arranging to conse...

Thakut River bridge to be completed in March

05 Nov 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times - The new Dala and Kawmhu bridge over Thakut River is now 95 percent complete and should be operational by the end of March 2021, said project engineer U Thet Wai Aung.  "The Thakut River bridge is situated on the Dala-Thkut-Let Khoke Kone-Kanyin Kone ro...

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