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.
Category: Myanmar
Twante residents fight to close foul-smelling fertilizer factory killing fish
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Mandalay struggles to manage wastes amid burgeoning economy
Myanmar’s second-largest city is struggling to dispose of its waste properly amid growing fast-growing businesses and an increasing population.
China Building Massive Myanmar Border Wall: Reports
To be sure, Chinese officials have long been concerned that their nation’s porous borders with Myanmar have facilitated drug production and trafficking in all manner of contraband, as well as an outlet for illicit capital flows.
