Labutta faces water shortages
Yangon, January 24, 2009
Couple of villages, in Labutta Township, one of Myanmar cyclone most affected area are facing the water shortage as the dry season begins to bite said INGO base manager form labutta.
Huge amount of villagers from this area depended on water ponds for fresh water before the storm nargics, but after May 2008 storm communal water ponds which were badly affected by salty water from the storm tide.
“Labutta INGO cluster meeting recently decided to focus about fresh water shortage in this area, and these INGOS estimate may be 90 of villages will need fresh water in this area at the end of this month ” he added.
According to the Post-Nargis Joint Assessment (PONJA), about 1,500 ponds - 13 percent of ponds in Yangon Division and 43 percent of ponds in the delta - were contaminated by sea water and debris.
Some of the INGOS have started salty water purification process in some village but villagers did not received like sphere standard.
“We get one gallon for each per day ,we understand that sources of village already gone and new sources is round about 2 hours drive by boat” one of the villager said.
In one month to dry season, many villagers are seeing water levels in their ponds dropping too fast.
INGOs and Myanmar Red Cross society are indentifying which villages at high risk water shortages to address problems in this township.
Among severely storm-ravaged townships in the delta, Labutta was at high risk of water shortages, with about two-thirds of the area at risk between March and April in 2009, while Bogale, Pyapon, and Dedaye townships were at moderate risk, according to a recent UNICEF assessment.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Juntas'Power play in Myanmar IT field
Myanmar will introduce a wireless Internet prepaid card system of WiFi for the first time in the this month, said authorized dealer @zy company staff.
WiFi hot spots are being installed in the hub of the Yangon city, and made survey research in downtown areas By myanmar ING group it said, adding that hot spot kits will be sold by the @zy company very soon.
Meanwhile, red link communications which offers Wi max internet services jointly with myanmar teleport said to Myanmar times the company would the market the kit that would through the computer shops,shopping centers and super market .
Red link company which is shared by u Toe Naing Man ,son of junta Thura shwe man and @zy is backing up by junta Thar aye said the source which is from IT field.
"if that @zy is the same as @zy music production- kyaw zin thein- then it will be power play between shwe mann and thar aye"he added.
Inculding youngsters and business people who livw in YGN are too much being attarcted by Wi fi system if the card sell out wireless internet users will boom huge amount in YGn.
Among authorized two dealer companies ,red link said the company was considering producing three types of prepaid cards,15 hours,20 hours and 30 hours of access.
Hopefully the prices would be betwenn 10000 kyats and 15000 kyats ( between 10 us dollars and 15 us dollars).It would also have log in name,password and an expiry date.
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WiFi hot spots are being installed in the hub of the Yangon city, and made survey research in downtown areas By myanmar ING group it said, adding that hot spot kits will be sold by the @zy company very soon.
Meanwhile, red link communications which offers Wi max internet services jointly with myanmar teleport said to Myanmar times the company would the market the kit that would through the computer shops,shopping centers and super market .
Red link company which is shared by u Toe Naing Man ,son of junta Thura shwe man and @zy is backing up by junta Thar aye said the source which is from IT field.
"if that @zy is the same as @zy music production- kyaw zin thein- then it will be power play between shwe mann and thar aye"he added.
Inculding youngsters and business people who livw in YGN are too much being attarcted by Wi fi system if the card sell out wireless internet users will boom huge amount in YGn.
Among authorized two dealer companies ,red link said the company was considering producing three types of prepaid cards,15 hours,20 hours and 30 hours of access.
Hopefully the prices would be betwenn 10000 kyats and 15000 kyats ( between 10 us dollars and 15 us dollars).It would also have log in name,password and an expiry date.
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Tragedy at ngwe saung beach
21 years old man drawned by rip current in famous Myanmar beach, ngwe saung, 140 miles away from Yangon,at january 2.
Mg Mg kyaw,Burmese citizen, 21 years old and other two girls were swimming in at ngwe saung beach that in front of the Myanmar treasure resort hotel before check in .after a few minutes latter rip current took him away from the beach eyewitness said.
It was January 2 ,11 pm .After extensive search ,Hotel rescue team found Mg Mg kyaw near the Olympic hotel that is a little bit far from the place that he disappeared .
He is already dead when he arrive the Bay of Bengal resort hotel clinic.
Ngwe saung police chief confirmed that it appears that the man was swept out to the sea by the rip current before getting into difficulty and disappearing.
He said mostly rip current occurs at beach after monsoon season, like October, it is very rare to happen in this month. May be because of climate change he added.
Ngwe Saung is also on the western coast of Myanmar on the Bay of Bengal, nearly directly west of Yangon and a bit south of Ngapali. It has become popular with tourists in just the last two or three years and the quality of the beach, sand and water is comparable to Ngapali Beach.
Mg Mg kyaw,Burmese citizen, 21 years old and other two girls were swimming in at ngwe saung beach that in front of the Myanmar treasure resort hotel before check in .after a few minutes latter rip current took him away from the beach eyewitness said.
It was January 2 ,11 pm .After extensive search ,Hotel rescue team found Mg Mg kyaw near the Olympic hotel that is a little bit far from the place that he disappeared .
He is already dead when he arrive the Bay of Bengal resort hotel clinic.
Ngwe saung police chief confirmed that it appears that the man was swept out to the sea by the rip current before getting into difficulty and disappearing.
He said mostly rip current occurs at beach after monsoon season, like October, it is very rare to happen in this month. May be because of climate change he added.
Ngwe Saung is also on the western coast of Myanmar on the Bay of Bengal, nearly directly west of Yangon and a bit south of Ngapali. It has become popular with tourists in just the last two or three years and the quality of the beach, sand and water is comparable to Ngapali Beach.
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