Irrawaddy Division Lead Story Military News
Search operations continue for missing military jet
The G-4 fighter jet was 38 miles into a 100-mile flight from Pathein to Hinthada when it lost communication with ground staff.
Irrawaddy Division Lead Story Military News
The G-4 fighter jet was 38 miles into a 100-mile flight from Pathein to Hinthada when it lost communication with ground staff.
Once perfected in Burma, the technology could help other large-scale restoration projects, said WIF’s Lyngdoh.
Irrawaddy Division Lead Story News
Residents of some villages in Irrawaddy Division’s Ngapudaw Township say they are beating back a recent infestation of rats, with hundreds of the vermin dispatched by local brigades of amateur exterminators this week.
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Irrawaddy Division Lead Story News
Four people have been killed and about 60 houses destroyed as storms caused by Cyclone Maarutha wreaked havoc in the Irrawaddy Delta.
History Irrawaddy Division Lead Story News
A fiberglass statue of Burma’s independence hero was completely destroyed by a man with mental illness in the Irrawaddy delta.
Join the “roadies” of DVB’s Doh Pyay Doh Myay (Our Land, Our Region) in Hainggyi Kyun, a coastal settlement in the Irrawaddy Delta located about 220 kilometres southwest of Rangoon. There, for many, lives and livelihoods are tied to the sea.
Ethnic issues Karen Lead Story News
“In the past, such a memorial event would not be allowed,” said the assassinated KNU leader’s niece.
Irrawaddy Division Lead Story Military News
One student explained that while the play carried an anti-war message, it was in no way meant to be anti-military.
flora and fauna Irrawaddy Division Lead Story News
“I was docking the boat when it suddenly appeared out of nowhere and gnashed at my leg,” said Saw Naung.
Human Interest Irrawaddy Division Lead Story News Video
The possessions are reported to have begun at Shan Yekyaw High School in August after the school expanded its compound into a neighbouring cemetery.
Irrawaddy Division Lead Story Natural Disasters News
Over 3,000 local villagers returned home on Wednesday after a storm warning issued earlier in the week was lifted by the government’s Department of Meteorology and Hydrology.
Human Interest Irrawaddy Division Lead Story News
To date, 18 girls have been ‘possessed’ – a process which makes them vomit, cry and scream hysterically.
Irrawaddy Division Lead Story Natural Disasters News
Villages have been evacuated and schools in Burma’s Irrawaddy Delta have been ordered to close.
Lead Story Natural Disasters News
Residents of Sankin Island in the Irrawaddy delta say there is no relief in sight as flooding in the area continues three weeks after it began.
Irrawaddy Division Lead Story Natural Disasters News
“It would be nice if the government could provide some assistance, such as rice and clean water to drink,” said a local farmer.
Environment Farmers Lead Story News
Last year’s floods and other extreme weather events have prompted many farmers in the Irrawaddy Delta to leave some of their land fallow.
Ethnic issues Lead Story News Politics
The NLD’s landslide victory over the USDP is seen to many as a dismissal of the anti-Mulism rhetoric that was employed by Ma-Ba-Tha during the election.
Business Weekly Lead Story News Pegu Division Trade
Telenor posts record revenues; Carlsberg opens beer factory in Pegu; Burma poised to be leading rice exporter; and rents in Rangoon on the rise.
Environment Irrawaddy Division Lead Story News
Refined salt production in the Irrawaddy delta has been in decline since the area was devastated by Cyclone Nargis in 2008, said an official at Myanmar Salt Enterprise.
Irrawaddy Division Lead Story News
Over 400 fishermen swept into the sea last week by a storm in the Bay of Bengal have been rescued by a team led by the Burmese navy.
Irrawaddy Division Lead Story Natural Disasters News
A depression over the Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify further into a cyclonic storm, however it is not moving towards the Burmese coastline, the DMH says.
Irrawaddy Division Land Lead Story News
A plague of imported snails has destroyed more than 1,000 acres of rice fields in Irrawaddy Division’s Dedaye Township, local farmers have told DVB.
Irrawaddy Division Lead Story News
Heavy non- seasonal showers, in the lower delta region of Irrawaddy, has destroyed paddy fields and left farmers pondering the fate of their livelihoods.
2015 Elections Irrawaddy Division Lead Story News Politics
Speaking in a delta town close to the president’s birthplace, chief minister urges the public to put its support behind Thein Sein and the USDP.
2015 Elections Irrawaddy Division Karen Lead Story News
A new party aimed at representing ethnic Karens in the Irrawaddy Delta has been formed – the Karen National Party (KNP) announced last week its intention to contest the 2015 general elections.
Activists and locals in the Irrawaddy delta town of Labutta held a multi-faith prayer on Friday in commemoration of the Cyclone Nargis tragedy which ravaged the delta on this day in 2008, leaving up to 140,000 dead and some 2 million homeless.
More than 200 homes and businesses were destroyed in a blaze that devastated the village of Katbat in the Irrawaddy delta on Monday morning, leaving about 1,100 people homeless.
At least 20 fishermen from Irrawaddy division’s Bogale and Pyapon townships are missing in the Bay of Bengal after getting caught in swirling winds caused by Cyclone Phailin.
Thousands of acres of paddy fields have been severely affected this month with floods inundating crops in the Irrawaddy delta while a drought has hit Upper Burma.