Source: The Myanmar Times Date: 16 February, 2018 - Translation - (original article in Burmese) Yangon Regional Chief Minister H.E U Phyo Min Thein stated that Yangon Regional Government will set up the Yangon City development plan focusing on the following four disc...
Conservationists sound alarm over pollution, abuse of wetlands
Source: The Myanmar Times Date: 23 February 2018 Conservationists have expressed grave concern over the deterioration of the country's wetlands mainly due to pollution, converting them to farmland and climate change. Daw Thiri Dae We Aung, programme manager of the Biodiversity and Nature Conservati...
World Bank ready to support disaster-response efforts
Source: The Myanmar Times Date: 24 February 2018 The World Bank stands ready to support Myanmar's efforts to help its people in times of disaster, said an official of the international financial institution. Ellen Goldstein, the bank's country director for Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos, said World Bank...
Riverbank erosion poses hurdle to rural development
Source: The Myanmar Times Date: 16 February, 2018 Riverbank erosion is becoming a major challenge to rural development in Myanmar because it damages not only people's homes but also their livelihoods, according to the Department of Disaster Management. The agency noted that bank erosions on major r...
Drones to aid mangrove rehabilitation
Source: The Myanmar Times Date: 8 February, 2018 Worldview International Foundation is testing a project aimed at speeding up the rehabilitation of mangrove forests in Yangon Region using drones to replant the shrubs, which only thrive on saline or brackish water along coasts, a senior executive of...
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...
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...