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Twelve million people in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Delta face serious long-term health risks from the harmful substance, arsenic, in their drinking water. The study, led by the University of Portsmouth, ...
News Myanmar » Ayeyarwady » Events: WFP launches emergency logistics service to support Myanmar flood response
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has activated a free-to-user emergency cargo transport service to bolster the humanitarian response to severe flooding in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady Region. By ...
News Myanmar » Ayeyarwady » Events: Ayeyarwady River and Myanmar Economy
WWF report on risks and opportunities from perspective of people living and working in the basin Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady River is both unique and special. It is one of the largest free-flowing rivers in ...
News Myanmar » Ayeyarwady » Events: A baffling Myanmar pit viper looks like two species at once, but DNA confirms the Ayeyarwady is its own line
A green pit viper collected from the lowlands of southern Myanmar has confounded herpetologists for years because its body scales and color pattern sit squarely between two well-known species.
News Myanmar » Ayeyarwady » Events: Over 40,000 affected by flooding after embankment breach in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady
More than 40,000 people have been affected by flooding from July 30 to Aug. 7 following the breach of the Ngawun River embankment in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady region, a spokesperson for the president's ...
News Myanmar » Ayeyarwady » Events: “Baffling” new snake species in Myanmar looks like multiple species at once
Scientists have uncovered a fascinating new species of pit viper in Myanmar that seems to blur the very definition of what a species is. This snake, now named the Ayeyarwady pit viper, puzzled ...
News Myanmar » Ayeyarwady » Events: Junta sentences 7 men to death in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady region
Myanmar’s military regime sentenced seven men in Ayeyarwady region to death, Pyapon township residents told Radio Free Asia over the weekend. Pyapon District Court issued the sentences on Friday, ...
News Myanmar » Ayeyarwady » Events: Irrawaddy-Flusskreuzfahrt: Along Myanmar’s Timeless Ayeyarwady River
For an American visitor, it can be tempting to think of Bagan mainly as an archaeological site—a Southeast Asian answer to Angkor or a distant cousin to Mesa Verde. Yet Bagan is also a living ...
News Myanmar » Ayeyarwady » Events: Junta forces arrest 31 Rohingya in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady region
A total of 31 Rohingya and five boatmen were arrested as they neared a beach at Nwei Nyo Chaung village in Ayeyarwady region’s Pathein township, locals told RFA. A resident, who did not want to be ...
News Myanmar » Ayeyarwady » Events: Chinese embassy donates educational equipment to Myanmar school
YANGON, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese Embassy in Myanmar donated educational equipment to Basic Education High School (Nga Me Aing branch) in Hinthada township, Ayeyarwady region on Wednesday. The ...