Ministry of Construction complete 100 bridges in Myanmar this year

04 Sep 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times - State and regional governments in Myanmar have expended around K477 billion building bridges in fiscal 2019-20, according to the Ministry of Construction. "A total of 43 bridges spanning over 180 ft and 57 bridges under 180 ft amounting to 100 bridges in to...

16 VMS control centres conducting surveillance of offshore fishing vessels

03 Sep 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - Starting from 1 September 2020, 16 Vessel Monitoring System Control Centres have been conducting surveillance of offshore fishing vessels in Myanmar waters for the ships to comply with vessels monitoring rules set by the Fisheries Department. ...

Fishing industry faces difficulty as its season starts

02 Sep 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - Although the onshore and offshore fishing boats have resumed business at the start of the fishing season, some of the boats have not raised their anchors due to worries about the declining market of this industry."We export all the fish to Ran...

Myanmar’s Inter-Census Survey 2019 Shows Progress in several development Indicators

02 Sept 2020 - Source: Mizzima - Myanmar Government's department of the population has released during the last week Inter census Survey 2019 preliminary results that reflect the progress that the country has made in terms of major demographic, socio-economic and development indicators. Coverin...

Tackling waste with Doh Eain

31 AUG 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times At the same time the Doh Eain believes that by managing wet waste for composting, residents will take better care and not throw kitchen waste out on the street. The added benefit is that the streets will also have a place to grow and nurture their own green p...

Experts seek better management of groundwater in Myanmar

31 Aug 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times - Experts submitted 32 recommendations on August 20 for the groundwater management bill in the Amyotha Hluttaw (Upper House) Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation Committee. U Myo Aung Htwe, project manager of the Yangon School of Political Science...

International Experts support University of Yangon towards Accreditation of new BSc Water Studies program

For 5 days in a row, staffs of the Environment and Water Studies (EWS) department of the University of Yangon and a team of academics from the Netherlands, Sweden, Singapore, Japan and the U.S. met online to finalize the curriculum of the new Bachelor of Water Studies. This curriculum design worksho...

Nga Moe Yeik embankment construction almost completes 100pc

28 Aug 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - The construction of Nga Moe Yeik embankment was nearly 100 per cent complete, and it is expected to complete at the end of August, according to Yangon Region Directorate of Water Resources and Improvement of River Systems (Region 1). The proje...

Dala Bridge construction running 24 hours to meet deadline

27 Aug 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times - Construction of the Dala Bridge is now being carried out around the clock to be complete within the targeted timeframe, said project manager Mr Jong Bo Choi. The bridge, also known as the Myanmar – Korea Friendship Bridge, is expected to cost US$168 million...

Yangon Chief Minister inspects Myanmar-Korea Friendship Dala Bridge construction

25 AUG 2020 - Source: The Global New Light of Myanmar Yangon Region Chief Minister U Phyo Min Thein inspected the construction of Myanmar-Korea Friendship Bridge (Dala) project in Yangon downtown side on 24 August.Dala bridge project is implemented with the loan of US$157.83 million from the Re...

Flood warnings for cities on Thanlwin, Chindwin and Ayeyarwady rivers

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...

Summary and Dialogue of Episode 2 - Let's Talks about Chindwin River Basin Organization in Myanmar

On 7th of August, 2020, Myanmar Water Portal broadcast the "Let's Talk About Water – Talk show". Episode 2 with guest speakers, Dr. Win Maung from Myanmar Environment Institute (MEI), Ma May Thazin Aung and Ma Than Htway Lwin from Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI – Asia). A regular host, Kyaw Ny...

“အားလုံးပါဝင်အသုံးပြုနိုင်သော ရေပေးဝေ‌‌ရေးနှင့် မိလ္လာစနစ်” သည် ကျွန်ုပ်တို့အားလုံးအတွက် အရေးကြီးကြောင်း COVID-19 က သတိပေးခေါင်း‌လောင်း ထိုးလိုက်ချေပြီ။”

Deepa Joshi, Gender, Youth and Inclusion Lead Specialist, IWMI Alan Nicol, Strategic Program Director – Water, Growth and Inclusion, IWMI COVID-19 ကပ်ရောဂါကူးစက်မှု မြင့်တက်လာသည်နှင့်အမျှ ရောဂါကူးစက်မှုကို အထိရောက်ဆုံး ကြိုတင်ကာကွယ်မှုအနေဖြင့် လက်ဆေးရန် ကျွန်ုပ်တို့သည် နေ့စဉ်နှင့်အမျှ သတိပေးနှိုးဆော...

New bridge infrastructure planned in Ayeyarwady, Shan

25 AUG 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times The Pathein Bridge (2), which directly connects Pathein's Mahabandoola Road with the west bank of Ngawun River in Ayeyarwady Region, will officially open for traffic in September, according to the Ministry of Construction. The bridge, which was constructed to acco...

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