ALTHOUGH hydropower accounted for 62 per cent of Myanmar’s power production last year, the nation should focus on improving the use of renewable energy to meet its target of 100 per cent electrification by 2030, the Myanmar Green Energy Summit 2017 has been told. Dawn Del Rio, deputy country director of United Nations Development Programme […]
Myanmar Urged to Tap Alternative Energy
August 28, 2017 by thiha
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China’s climate aid flows into Myanmar
March 31, 2017 by Thiha
Than Bayar Khon village sits nested in the foothills of the Bago Yoma forest in central Myanmar. The low mountains, once heavily forested with teak and valuable tropical timbers, are now rapidly balding. Despite being only a few kilometres from the major highway connecting the port city of Yangon with the capital Naypyidaw, the three […]
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Myanmar’s toxic legacy of large dams
March 22, 2017 by Thiha
The country’s first strategic environmental review provides a chance to demand more from investors and dam builders, but is still being seen as too little, and leading to fierce resistance by marginalised communities. In September spectacular drone footage revealed the beauty of the waterfalls, rapids, ancient temples and islets of the Nam Pang River, a […]
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Myanmar ‘Must Review Energy Policies’
December 15, 2016 by thiha
WITH two-third of the population lacking access to the national grid, Myanmar needs to find the most suitable energy policies for domestic consumption, according to civil society organisations. A total of 422 CSOs signed a statement that called a halt to coal plants and mega dams at the end of the recent Myanmar Green […]
Flood damage to crops raises fears of food crisis in Myanmar
August 7, 2015 by Thiha
YANGON (Myanmar Now) – Floods caused by heavy rainfall have inundated 1 million acres of cropland across Myanmar, a majority of them paddy fields, leading the country’s rice traders to call for a halt in rice exports over fears of a rise in food prices, as authorities struggle to respond to the worst natural disaster […]
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Burma’s New Auto Policy to Promote Manufacturing, Say Experts
June 1, 2015 by thiha
RANGOON — Domestic and foreign car industry experts will convene over the weekend to hash out details of a new automobile policy geared toward streamlining Burma’s ownership, manufacturing and import practices. The Myanmar Automobile Policy Conference will take place at the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce (UMFCCI) in Rangoon on May 31. […]
EWEC will boost business, tourism opportunities—ASEAN analyst
November 15, 2013 by thiha
Consult-Myanmar welcome you to the 27th SEA Games Myanmar, 11-22 Dec 2013 Construction of the East West Economic Corridor (EWEC) connecting Mawlamyaine and Da Nang across four ASEAN countries will be completed soon, creating a tourism boom throughout the region, an ASEAN business analyst said at a workshop on competitiveness in the ASEAN Economic Corridor. […]
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