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...
ရေကြီးရေလျှံမှုများကို ကိုယ်တိုင်တက်ကြွစွာ ဦးဆောင်ဖြေရှင်းနေသော ဒေသခံခေါင်းဆောင်တစ်ဦး
ကဏ္ဍတစ်ခုတိုးတက်ဖို့ရာ ဒေသခံခေါင်းဆောင်များရဲ့ ဦးဆောင်မှုဟာ ဘယ်လောက်အရေးပါသလဲ။ ခေါင်းဆောင်မှုစွမ်းရည်ဆိုတာဟာ မိမိနှင့်အများလိုလားတဲ့ ပန်းတိုင်တစ်ခုအတွက် ခံယူချက်ခိုင်ခိုင်မာမာချမှတ်ပြီး ဘယ်လိုအခက်အခဲကြုံကြုံ ရည်မှန်းချက်ပန်းတိုင်ကိုရောက်ရှိအောင် ကိုယ်တိုင်တက်တက်ကြွကြွ ဦးဆောင်နိုင်တဲ့ အရည်အချင်းတစ်...
Electrofishing users arrested in central Myanmar to prevent Ayeyawady dolphins from extinction
19 Nov 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - A combined team arrested the fishermen who did illegal electrofishing to prevent the Ayeyawady dolphins from extinction, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Myanmar. Under the one-year Ayeyawady dolphin conservation patro...
MPA: Yangon has seen 9 new jetties in 4 years
19 Nov 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - A total of nine new jetties, which can dock the international ships, were built in four years in Yangon, includinThilawa area. There are now a total of 42 jetties in Yangon Port, according to the official statistics of Myanma Port Authority (M...
A glimpse into Myanmar water governance, 2020 – Interview with Thurein Maung Maung
All the water sector stakeholders need to be freed of bias, transcend our interest, and work together to give our country the best possible services. by Thurein Maung Maung, a water and sanitation professional Over 19 years of working experience in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Eu...
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...
Yangon city’s water management
25 Oct 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - Although the rainy season is going on now, there is a remarkable rise in the temperature in Yangon with less rainfall. Global climate is fast changing day after day affected by the global warming. Meteorologists hope that the global tempe...
Sittwe Port: Strategic Importance and Key Benefits for India and Myanmar
13 Oct 2020 - Source: JAGRAN Josh India and Myanmar agreed to work towards the operationalization of Strategic Sittwe Port in the first quarter of 2021. Indian Army Chief General M.M. Naravane and Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla travelled to Mayanmar on a two-day visit. They also calle...
The Protection of Wildlife and Protected areas Law – 1994
The Protection of Wildlife and Protected areas Law was enacted on 8th June, 1994 by the State Law and Order Restoration Council with the aims to implement the government policy for wildlife protection and natural areas conservation, to carry out the protection and conservation of wildlife, ecosystem...
FOREST POLICY – 1995
The formulation of forestry policies has evolved for the purpose of developing sustainability of the environment as Myanmar forestry sector is essential in the enhancement of national socio-economic development, environmental sustainability and balance of nature. The six imperatives were established...
FOREST LAW - 1992
The forest act 1902 was replaced with the new law in 1992 which shall be implemented in accordance with the declared 8 basic principles and the law was composed of 13 chapters and 58 sections. This forestry law of 1992 focused on the reservation, protection and management of forest l...
Water and Sanitation: How to make public investment work (A Handbook for Finance Ministers)
ABOUT THE HANDBOOK This Handbook is a call to action for ministers of finance, with inspirational case studies and forward-looking sector perspectives. It is part of an initiative by the Sanitation and Water for All global partnership to provide succinct insights and curated knowledge to minis...
Lessons to learn from the Festival of Water Forces and Boat races
2 Oct 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - Blessed by natural favours, Myanmar is a country with rich water, land and forests. To crown them are mineral sources of jewels, minerals and fossils and island aquatic bodies and a long coastline with mangrove fossils on it and archipelag...
A Local Self-Driven Man Solving Floods – The Importance of Local Leadership in Myanmar Water Sector
One of the fundamental essences of leaderships is self-motivation, the ability to motivate yourself and drive people to keep going even in the face of setbacks, to create opportunities and to demonstrate a commitment to what they want to achieve. Aside from the definition, this is a message that I w...
Taninthayi offshore fishing vessels relying only on Ranong market
1 Oct 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - As all the fishing vessels off the Taninthayi coast depend solely on Ranong market, the businesses may come to a halt from the declining price and weakening demand and marine workers may experience hardships, according to Myanmar Fisheries Fede...