Myanmar’s rainy season began in June and seasonal flooding is an annual problem. Some parts of Myanmar have experienced record rainfall this year, according to state media.

“The offices will have technical support for phone and internet use. They will need special communication connections but the hotel already has the capacity to handle them,”

“The maximum sustainable yield of Myanmar’s waters is about 1.1 million tonnes annually but our current annual catch from the sea is about 1.4 million tonnes,”

The airline and travel company had agreed last November to launch the e-ticketing system, which allows foreign visitors to receive Yangon Airways tickets via email. The service started on August 1.

Contracts for the project were signed on July 31 between Mr Masashi Ogawa, the deputy chief of mission and counselor at the Japanese embassy in Yangon, and U Ye, the chairman of the Kyundaw and Dawhsasi Primary Schools Construction Committee.

The traffic signals are connected to a battery that stores energy from both solar panels and the regular electricity current. In the event of a blackout, the stored energy is used to power the traffic light. The department tested the solar panel system at the junction of Theinbyu and Bo Min Yaung roads in Mingalar Taung Nyunt township on July 14.

“Second to cataracts is pterygium (benign growth of the membrane covering the white part of the eye). We refer these patients to Yangon Eye Hospital. As for those who have the worst conditions, we can’t give treatment; we just give them medicine to prevent infections,”

The society recruited more than 8000 life members, 70 ordinary members, 105 school Red Cross members and 105 Red Cross brigade members throughout the country from January to June this year.

The ministry announcement said that during his 34-year diplomatic career, Mr Nogawa has served at Japan’s permanent mission at the United Nations in Geneva as well as at the Japanese consulate in Sydney.

“The sesame harvest will occur in a few months. It is better for us if they export the oil extracted from the seeds rather than the seeds themselves because we can use the paste resulting from the oil-extracting process for fish and animal feed,”

“Child development experts say that kids are capable of learning school lessons from the age of three years. If we start teaching them at that age they will try to follow but their brains become exhausted and overloaded,”

“We need not only personal information from donors but also many other resources to provide contact between needy patients and donors of similar blood type,”

“The main problems challenging adolescents in the country are reproductive health, HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases, anaemia in adolescent women, smoking, use of alcohol and tobacco products and various kinds of injuries,”

The project involves the release of young guppies and tilapia in stagnant ponds and gutters where mosquitoes breed. The fish help reduce insect populations by eating mosquito larva in the water.

“But schools alone cannot prevent the causes of the disease. The community must also play a key role in maintaining a clean environment and taking preventive measures to fight dengue fever,”

“We lost only one game to the Ministry of Forestry team who played very tough against us and we didn’t play our complete team. Most league teams are also very strong and played well against us. But if we got to play with some international teams, it would be much better for us,”