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Category: Myanmar

The rich get richer: Imagining Yangon in 2025 as a city of haves and have nots

By Nantiya January 14, 2021January 15, 2021

Plastic and the pandemic

By Nantiya January 13, 2021January 14, 2021

A sharp increase in household plastic waste amid COVID-19 has exacerbated the threat posed by Yangon’s near-capacity landfills and poor waste management systems.

Myanmar removes Thai builder from Indo-Pacific economic-zone project

By Nantiya January 13, 2021January 15, 2021

China, Myanmar agree to accelerate construction of economic corridor

By Nantiya January 12, 2021January 15, 2021

China hopes the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor will be fully implemented after the new government is formed to help Myanmar to develop and revitalize, believing the army will also offer support, said Wang.

Twante residents fight to close foul-smelling fertilizer factory killing fish

By Nantiya January 11, 2021January 11, 2021

Officials at the factory said that experts who were supposed to come from China to set up a filtration system to remove the bad odour were unable to do so due to Covid-19 restrictions.

Annual Ayeyarwady dolphin survey to be conducted February

By Nantiya January 6, 2021January 6, 2021

There are 79 dolphins as per existing survey – electro-fishing was one of the main reasons for the decline of the Ayeyarwady dolphins.

Myanmar migratory bird census to be taken by locals

By Nantiya January 4, 2021January 5, 2021

Myanmar has two of the nine flyways which the migratory birds take around the world. They are the Central Asian Flyway, and the East Asian Australasian Flyway.

Transboundary haze: The hidden price of cheap maize 

By Pratch Rujivanarom December 30, 2020January 5, 2021

Industrial maize farming in Myanmar’s Shan State is devastating families and landscapes as well as fuelling ever-increasing levels of transboundary haze, generating urgent calls for serious changes to animal feed supply chains.

Buried in debt: Shan contract farmers’ future rocked by insecurity

By Pratch Rujivanarom December 30, 2020January 5, 2021

Apart from being a source of transboundary haze, poorly regulated contract farming is trapping the small farmers of Myanmar’s Shan State in a cycle of overwhelming debt, land dispossession and environmental degradation. 

Beyond industrial maize farming’s dead-end in Myanmar

By Pratch Rujivanarom December 30, 2020January 15, 2021

Diversified farming systems and agrobiodiversity are essential in defending food security and coping with climate crisis. But both are being undermined in Myanmar’s Shan State, where the industrial maize industry is making local farmers more vulnerable to climate change. 

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