Waste Management

YCDC – What do residents really think?

August 27, 2019 by Thiha

Yangon residents and businesses pay a lot of taxes, and in return expect particular services or utilities to be provided for by the government. A reliable water supply, clean and well-maintained streets, or having access to public recreational facilities are a few of the expectations some taxpayers have. Exactly what Yangon’s five million residents think […]

Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: Markets, Public Parks, residents, stray dogs, Streets and roads, Taxes, The survey, Waste Management, Water Supply, Yangon, YCDC

Seeking promising start-ups

May 23, 2019 by Thiha

Local recycling company RecyGlo last week emerged as the winner of the Seedstars world competition in Yangon. The start-up beat nine other local entrepreneurs to represent Myanmar at the Asia Seedstars Summit, making it eligible for US$500,000 (K767 million) in equity investments if it wins the final competition in Switzerland next April. RecyGlo’s aim of […]

Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: Asia Seedstars Summit, Investor Interest, Local recycling company, Myanmar, RecyGlo, Seedstars world competition, start-ups, Waste Management, Yangon

Are municipalities Myanmar’s champions of reform?

May 2, 2018 by Thiha

2017 was a difficult year for Myanmar. The rocky peace process and crisis in Rakhine have complicated the government’s effort to put together a reform agenda following five decades of authoritarian rule. In such a challenging context, it is easy for bureaucratic inertia to set in and for people within government to become more risk […]

Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: Alison Chan, Asia Foundation, Asia Foundation’s governance program, Ayeyarwaddy Region, Chin State, DAOs, Development Affairs Organizations, Facebook and Viber, finances, food safety, gender advisor, James Owen, Kayin State, license fees, licensing system, Livestock, meat prices, Minister for Development Affairs, Ministry of Border Affairs, mobile app technology, municipal revenues, Municipal staff, Myanmar cities, operations, rakhine, Renaissance Institute, RI, Shan State, Shan State government, Taunggyi, tax revenue, the economist, Union-level line ministry, urban services, Waste Management, workshop discussions

Yangon City Development Committee: Tender Invitation for Waste Management, Due Date: 30 April 2014

March 24, 2014 by thiha

Subscribe to our tender alert mailing list Tender invitation for the transfer of the activities related to waste collection and transportation of the collected waste to final disposal site currently performed by Yangon City Development Committee to private company 1. Within 33 township of the area of Yangon City Development Committee, there are 4 districts […]

Filed Under: Tenders & Awards Tagged With: address, Disposing, Districts, English and Myanmar, feasibility study, Final Proposal Site, Foreign Companies, Insurance Premium, joint ventures, Letterheads, local companies, Pollution Control and Cleaning Department, Private Company, Tender Invitation, Tender Proposals, Tipping Fees, Waste Collection and Transportation, Waste Management, Waste to Energy Project, Yangon City Development Bank, Yangon City Development Committee, YCDC

Myanmar, Sri Lanka Seek Deeper Ties

March 17, 2014 by thiha

Myanmar and Sri Lanka are seeking cooperation in economic development between the two countries. The meeting on bilateral economic potential was held in Nay Pyi Taw last week, attended by Myanmar Minister of Commerce U Win Myint and Sri Lankan Deputy Minister for Industry and Commerce Lakshman Wasantha Perera. Win Myint called for bilateral cooperation […]

Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: agricultural products, Deputy Minister, economic development, Finished Gems, Industry and Commerce, Lakshman Wasantha Perera, Minister of Commerce, Myanmar, Nay Pyi Taw, Recycling Technology, Sri Lanka, U Win Myint, Waste Management

Private waste management coming to Mandalay

March 17, 2014 by thiha

Mandalay City Development Committee will put out a tender later this month for rubbish collection in the city. A senior official from the committee’s Cleaning Department said companies will be invited in late February to submit proposals for taking on rubbish collection responsibilities. Mandalay current generates 750-800 tonnes a day of hard rubbish and the […]

Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: Cleaning Department, Daw Kyi Kyi Sein, Mandalay City Development Committee, MCDC, Myanmar, Organic Asia Group, private sector, rubbish collection, Sein Yay Kan, tender, Thai company, U Nay Win Myint, Waste Management

More than 50 firms to join India show in Myanmar

January 16, 2014 by thiha

YANGON—More than 50 companies from various sectors in India will participate in the second Enterprise India show to be held in Tatmadaw Hall, Yangon, from January 16-18, according to the Indian Embassy. The exhibition of Indian products and services, which will be organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Embassy of India, […]

Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: agriculture, automobile, Automotive Components, CII, Confederation of Indian Industry, Construction Machinery, Education and Training, Energy Transmission, Enterprise India Show, Financial Services, Held, irrigation, Metals and Minerals, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Participate, Tatmadaw Hall, Various Sectors, Waste Management