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 ...
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...
Asian Water Development Outlook 2020
The Asian Water Development Outlook (AWDO) 2020 shares the current water security status in Asia and the Pacific, including main findings and recommendations on water governance and finance as well as application of the AWDO framework in policy development and water management. According to AWDO 202...
Mandalay struggles to manage wastes amid burgeoning economy
18 December 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times Myanmar's second-largest city is struggling to dispose of its waste properly amid growing fast-growing businesses and an increasing population. Due to the rapid increase of daily waste, the city with a population of over 1.2 million, will upgrade the garbage ...
Japan to conduct survey on Dawei deep sea port project
18 December 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times The Japanese government will commence a survey to determine the total amount of capital expenditure required to participate in the development of the Dawei deep sea port project, said U Tin Htoo Naing, secretary for Dawei SEZ management committee. The move co...
ရေ ကို ဘောဂဗေဒရှုထောင့်ဖြင့် သုံးသပ်ခြင်း_ရေသည် စီးပွားဖြစ် ကုန်စည်တစ်ခုလော
ခြေဆင်း စာရေးသူသည် ရှေ့တွင် "လူ့အခွင့်ရှူ့ထောင့်ဖြင့် ရေရပိုင်ခွင့် သုံးသပ်ခြင်း - ရေရပိုင်ခွင့်သည် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးလော" ဆိုသည့် ဆောင်းပါးတစ်ပုဒ်ကို ရေးတင်ခဲ့ဖူးပြီးဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ထိုသို့ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးရှုထောင့်မှ ဆင်ခြင်သုံးသပ်သည့် စာစုအပေါ်တွင် မေးခွန်းထုတ်စရာကောင်းနေသည်မှာ "ရေသည် စီးပ...
Yangon water bus to resume services today
08 December 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar Yangon Water Bus service, which has temporarily halted due to the COVID-19 outbreak, will reopen on 7 December, Tint Tint Myanmar Group of Companies released a statement. The reopened route is Yangon Water bus route Sarparchaung-Lanthit. T...
Myanmar implements sustainable aquaculture programme
08 December 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times Myanmar is launching a national aquaculture plan to support the country's fisheries industry, with the aim of linking it up with long term buyers from European markets. The government will implement the Myanmar Sustainable Aquaculture Programme (MYSAP) under ...
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 ...
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...
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...
New regional transport system to benefit Myanmar’s freight forwarders
26 Nov 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times - Transportation of goods between Asean countries will be more competitive with the implementation of a new regional multimodal transport system, said U Than Win Aung, joint secretary of the Myanmar International Freight Forwarders Association. A framework ag...
Myanmar implementing 14 projects with Mekong-Lancang Cooperation special fund
25 Nov 2020 - Source: Eleven Myanmar - Myanmar has received four projects in the third batch to be implemented with Mekong-Lancang Cooperation special fund in the current 2020-2021 fiscal year, bringing to the total number of ongoing projects to 14, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Liv...
Myanmar to generate more energy from hydro, solar sources
24 Nov 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times - Myanmar will press ahead with the implementation of four hydropower projects to meet the country's demand for electricity, according to Union Minister of Electricity and Energy U Win Khine. Currently, Myanmar generates 3,225 megawatts (MW) of electricity, o...
Japan Reveals Full Commitment to Myanmar’s Dawei SEZ
24 Nov 2020 - Source: The Irrawaddy - Japan has decided to invest in the full phase implementation of the Dawei Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in southern Myanmar, Japan's ambassador to Myanmar, Ichiro Maruyama, has told The Irrawaddy in an exclusive interview. The US$8-billion (10.5 trillion) pro...