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SLCM aims to provide agri-financing solutions to farmers Photo: Ye Min/Mizzima
Development
12 May 2015
SLCM Ltd to tie up with CB Bank in Myanmar
SLCM, the wholly owned subsidiary of Sohan Lal Commodity Management, a leading agri...
Seven years on and cyclone shelter construction has stalled Photo: World Vision
Development
06 May 2015
Cyclone shelter construction stalled 7 years...
Only one of 45 cyclone shelters proposed to be built in 2012 have been constructed, this...
Myanmar children in Kayah State. An estimated 100,000 children are expected to have their births registered for the first time. Photo: Ye Min/Mizzima
Development
04 May 2015
UNICEF and Myanmar Government launch Birth...
UNICEF is supporting the Myanmar Government in launching Birth Registration week in...
Waiting in a clinic in Kaying State. Photo: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA
Development
24 April 2015
Project aims to improve health and electricity...
About three million pregnant women and children in Myanmar are expected to benefit from...
The World Bank hopes its programme will help improve farmers' lives. Photo: Mizzima
Development
24 April 2015
World Bank to help poor farmers’ crop yields
The World Bank Group’s board of executive directors have approved a US$100 million [K100...
Pedestrians walk past a branch of a United Overseas Bank (UOB) in Singapore, 18 June 2013. Photo: Sam Chin/EPA
Development
21 April 2015
Singapore bank to finance Myanmar power plant
United Overseas Bank has just announced a financing agreement with Singapore-based...
Sand-mining at Ngapali beach. The “mass theft” of sand is destroying the beach, says the Alliance against Sand-mining at Ngapali and Myanmar Beaches. Photo: Supplied
Development
02 April 2015
Beach lovers petition President to stop sand-...
President U Thein Sein is being asked to order a halt to sand-mining at Ngapali beach in...
A girl in Myanmar is fed a meal after her mother received training in nutrition and hygiene from World Vision. Photo: World Vision 
Development
30 March 2015
WFP needs US$35m to cover food assistance in...
The World Food Programme in Myanmar is short of US$35 million [K35 billion] for the...
Development
30 March 2015
Practical help for Kayin farm development project
PlaNet Finance, the lead implementing agency for the EU-funded project 'Supporting...
The partnership between ICIMOD and Myanmar works to protect mountain ecosystems. Madwe mountain, Putao, Kachin State, Myanmar. Photo: Shein/Panoramio
Development
27 March 2015
Partnership stresses protecting mountain...
Minister of Environmental Conservation and Forestry U Win Tun said Myanmar is helping to...
A Karen health worker gives a medical check up to a Karen pregnant woman at Paw Bu La Hta clinic in Kow Poe Kee village, Kayan State, Myanmar on April 3, 2008. Photo: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA
Development
27 March 2015
UN help with health care
Ms Grete Faremo, United Nations Under Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNOPS,...
Woodside is now the largest oil and gas player in the Rakhine Basin. Photos: Woodside Energy
Development
21 March 2015
Woodside signs oil and gas offshore agreement
Woodside has signed production sharing contracts for offshore blocks AD-2, AD-5, A-4 and...

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