Myanmar News » Ayeyarwady News Myanmar » Ayeyarwady » Security: At least 30,000 affected by Myanmar floods as conflict, crop losses threaten food security
At least 30,000 residents in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady region are grappling with severe flooding as armed conflict, fuel shortages and crop losses deepen threats to livelihoods and food security. At the ...
News Myanmar » Ayeyarwady » Security: Millions at risk as Myanmar wells surpass WHO arsenic guidelines
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 » Security: Myanmar: UN WFP pushes to reach flood-affected communities
In flood-hit Myanmar, UN humanitarians said on Monday that aid teams have begun distributing emergency relief to families affected by monsoon rains in the Ayeyarwady Delta. Some 500,000 people in the ...
News Myanmar » Ayeyarwady » Security: Irregularities taint military draft lottery in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady
Authorities in southwestern Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady region have commenced lotteries to select who will be drafted into the military from among lists of draft-eligible youths, but residents say the ...
News Myanmar » Ayeyarwady » Security: Police, soldiers injure 17 following Myanmar prison riot
Police and prison guards injured at least 17 inmates in western Myanmar after a prison riot broke out, an advocacy group told Radio Free Asia on Monday. Fighting between prison staff and inmates, ...
News Myanmar » Ayeyarwady » Security: 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 » Security: Myanmar's military confronts critical rebel advance
Myanmar's armed forces (Tatmadaw) have reacted rapidly and in strength to an advance by ethnic insurgent forces into the Ayeyarwady delta region of the national heartland, which threatens the city of ...
News Myanmar » Ayeyarwady » Security: Myanmar: Junta Troops Forcibly Recruit More Than 70 Young Men In Town
Authorities in Myanmar forcibly recruited more than 70 young men from a single town in the south-central Ayeyarwady region, residents said Monday, as the junta launched a new round of training for the ...