China to share Mekong data with MRC countries

26th OCT 2020 - Source: Eleven Media Group Co., Ltd. (The Phnom Penh Post/ANN)-------China's Ministry of Water Resources signed an agreement with the Mekong River Commission (MRC) on October 22 which stated China would share more hydrological data with Mekong countries to ensure they can prepare for...

Ayeyarwady river faces shortage of fishes in the peak season

24 Oct 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - Although this is the abundant fish season annually for the local fishermen, Ayeyawady River is with the shortage of fish in this period, according to a report from Magway region fishers. Ten years ago, a fishing vessel caught around ten v...

ဘင်္ဂလားပင်လယ်အော်၌ ဖြစ်ပေါ်နေသော မုန်တိုင်းငယ်သည် ၂၄ နာရီအတွင်း အားကောင်းသော မုန်တိုင်းငယ်အဖြစ် ပြောင်းလဲနိုင်ပြီး မြစ်ငယ်၊ ချောင်းငယ်များအနီးတွင် နေထိုင်သူများ လျှပ်တစ်ပြက်ရေကြီးခြင်းကို သတိပြုရန်လို

23 OCT 2020 - Source: Eleven Media Group Co.,Ltd. ဘင်္ဂလားပင်လယ်အော်တွင် ဖြစ်ပေါ်နေသော မုန်တိုင်းငယ်သည် ၂၄ နာရီအတွင်း အားကောင်းသော မုန်တိုင်းငယ်အဖြစ် ပြောင်းလဲနိုင်ပြီး မြစ်ငယ်၊ ချောင်းငယ်များ အနီးတွင် နေထိုင်သူများ လျှပ်တစ်ပြက် ရေကြီးခြင်းကို သတိပြုရန် လိုအပ်ကြောင်း မိုးလေဝသနှင့် ဇလဗေဒညွှန်ကြားမှုဦ...

The company says that waste from pig farm does not get into the pond

22 Oct 2020 - Source: BNI - A company official explained and responded to the concerns of villagers on the contaminants from the French pig farm near Daw Klo Village in Deemawso Township that it had entered the paddy fields near the creek instead of the lake used by the locals. Dr. Pyae Phyo Ma...

ကရင်ပြည်နယ်မှ ရေမည်းများ၊ အဆိပ်သင့်ဝန်းကျင်မှ ပြည်သူ့ဘဝများ

ဤအစီအရင်ခံစာသည် ဘားအံမြို့နယ် မြိုင်ကလေးဒေသရှိ တန် ၄,၀၀၀ ဘိလပ်မြေစက်ရုံတွင် ကျောက်မီးသွေးလောင်စာ စတင်အသုံးပြုပြီးနောက်ပိုင်း ဒေသခံများအသက်ရှင်ရေးအတွက် နေ့စဥ်မှီခိုနေရသော ရေအရင်းအမြစ်များ အရည်အသွေးပြောင်းလဲခြင်း၊ ဒေသခံများ၏ ကျန်းမာရေးဆိုင်ရာခံစားနေရခြင်းနှင့် လူမှုစီးပွားရေးကျဆင်းခြင်းတို့ကို ၂၀၁၉ခုန...

Myanmar Port Authority has organized the 2nd Yangon-Coco Island shipping services

20 Oct 2020 - Source: Myanmar International TV - Myanmar Port Authority has organized the 2nd second Yangon-Coco Island shipping services, leaving from No.3 Sule Jetty in Yangon on 18th of October. This MV. Charities vessel carried 220 tons of cargos and 70 passengers including govern...

Wreckage believed to be World War Two aircraft found in Kachin river

19 Oct 2020 - Source: Myanmar Mix - The details are scarce, but four feet under the clear waters of the Malikha River in northern Myanmar is the apparent wreckage of a World War Two plane discovered days ago. Facebook account "Sin Bay Yt Thomas" posted a video on October 17 of a man treading li...

Denmark committed DKK35 million to support Myanmar’s 5 year Climate Adaption Programme

17 Oct 2020 - Source: ScandAsia - Coastal communities in Myanmar are extremely vulnerable to the impact of climate change and highly exposed to severe natural weather events such as heavy rain, storm surge, floods and cyclones. To help Myanmar respond to those natural challenges, the Forest Dep...

Water Pollution Assessment of Ti Gyit 2018

Waterkeeper Alliance (WKA) has been provided with a Laboratory Analysis Report by Advancing Life and Regenerating Motherland (ALARM) and an Analysis Report by the Analysis Department of the Government of the Republic of Myanmar (GRM) of water and soil samples collected in and around the Village...

Water supply project from Dotthawadi River to start in 2021

15 October 2020 - Source: The Global New Light of Myanmar Mandalay Pyigyitagon Water Supply Development Project with the purification of Dotthawadi river, jointly implemented by the Netherlands and Mandalay City Development Committee (MCDC), will commence only in early 2021, said U Saw Han, a member...

The Handbook for Management and Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems in River and Laked Basins

The handbook provides an insight into the key issues linked to managing and restoring aquatic ecosystems. The information draws from real-life experiences, practical examples and expertise acquired in national and transboundary basins throughout the world involving people from public authorities and...

Locals care about ibis birds in Sagaing region

11 Oct 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - The residents are taking good care of ibis birds which are one of the species of migratory birds inhabiting Lake Indaw in Sagaing Region. This lake is the third biggest one in Myanmar."Many hundred ibis birds reached our Lake Indaw in 2015-201...

The ailing Ayeyarwady

11 Oct 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times - Born in Phaung Gyi village on an island near the shore of the Ayeyarwady River in Nyaung-U Township, just under 150 kilometers south-west of Mandalay, Ko Aung Zaw Oo feels agitated whenever he returns home. He is now 43. Throughout his life, his village has...

Locals revive Inn Lay floating market in October

10 Oct 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - The Inn Lay floating market has returned to a revival after missing for more than a decade, starting from the first week of October during the pandemic period, according to the locals.Although the local and foreign travellers are interested in...

Ferries run only with over 600 commuters aboard per day

07 Oct 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar Three Cherry ferries are running daily for the people from Dala and its surrounding townships to reach the commercial hub of Yangon City. With the declining number of passengers during COVID-19 outbreak, the ferry vessels are operating with only a fe...

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