Zon Pann Pwint
The Myanmar Times
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UNHCR and Unilever team up to fight COVID-19
With the aim of improving sanitation and hygiene for families in need, including those living in displacement camps, the UN Refugee Agency and Unilever are working together to donate some 608,000 bars of soap to prevent COVID-19. The hygiene items have been dispatched to Kachin, northern Shan, Rakhine, as well as Kayah and Kayin states, and will be distributed in camp settings → Read More
High school makeover during quarantine
WHEN 36-year-old carpenter Ko Nyi Htwe returned to his native Gangaw township in Magwe Division he worried about the COVID-19 pandemic. He had just visited a town called Tamu near the Indian border, where he had worked on a construction project, and now faced a mandatory 14-day period of quarantine. → Read More
Thorny problem of torn notes on buses
"It was very smelly. Every single time we count notes, the room is sprayed with fragrance," an official from the Yangon Urban Public Transportation Company (YUPT) said, after opening a plastic bag full of damaged and grotty notes. → Read More
COVID-19 deaths in Myanmar rise to 3
A 47-year-old man and a 63-year-old woman infected with COVID-19 died on April 8, the Health Ministry said, raising to three the total number of fatalities from the dreaded disease in the country. → Read More
Back in fashion with removable neck rings
"It was a great deal of pain. It hurt to swallow, sleep and walk properly for days,” the 50-year old Karen woman Daw Phawt recalled, referring to the brass coils bound around her neck and legs when she was 20. → Read More
A woman combats the mass poisoning of Yangon’s stray dogs
A loud bark came from the nearby market. Inside the precincts of the Tayzasakki monastery in 8 Miles was a makeshift operation theater where a half dozen veterinarians were on a mission to rid the country of man’s four-legged friends – the ones living on the streets, at least. → Read More
Wouldn’t it be nice to breathe cleaner air?
When Dr Kirt Page, academic advisor at the American University of Yangon (AU) had moved to Yangon from India, home to some of the most polluted cities in the world, he still suffered from the occasional sore throat. → Read More
Graphic poem postcards: reviving a lost art
ACK in the 1970 and 80s, sending colorful postcards was traveler’s ritual. Before the advent of smart phones, email and instant messaging, postcards were a way of affirming your connection with home – with that small piece of embossed card, depicting a landmark, beach or cartoon map. → Read More
Nats helping to conserve the environment in Myanmar
The 40-acre Sal forest (Shorea robusta) is a protected area and a natural gift for the people of Zee O village, located to the south east of Bagan. The Sal trees provide patches of shade for visitors walking along the dusty lanes, a signature of the dry zone. → Read More
Meet U Saw Berny, WWII veteran
U Saw Berny is turning 97 in March. But he vividly remembers the days he fought against Japanese soldiers as if it happened yesterday. He even gives a very lucid recollection of the events with dates. → Read More
The Big Bad Wolf book sale returns to Yangon
The Big Bad Wolf book fair, said to be the world’s biggest book sale, is scheduled to be held in Myanmar for the third time at Myanmar Expo Hall at Fortune Plaza from January 10 to 20. → Read More
The return of the globetrotting bikers
It felt like a dream to be back home,” Aung Kyaw Win told the journalists. The motorcycling duo, Sai Zom Pha and Aung Kyaw Win, returned to Yangon where they kicked off their adventurous journey after six months and 55,000 kilometers traveling around the world. → Read More
35 years of Central Press
Once upon a time, newspapers were printed by a letterpress. The technology was inherited from German engineer Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th Century, and survived in Myanmar until 1995. The letterpress enabled the mass production of newspapers, books and magazines, until computers and digital technology took over in the 1990s. → Read More
Road trip to Dawei Venturing south on a 4 day break
Coming from a conservative and risk-adverse family, it took some convincing to push my relatives to join me on a journey to Dawei. For the Thadingyut festival, the office generously allowed us to take 2 days on top of the weekend. As you surely know, journalists are always busy, and 4 days was the longest holiday I could secure since Thingyan. → Read More
20 years on the bridge
It the break of dawn, the Yangon River wakes up from its lethargy as commuters travel from Dala to the city for the day’s work. → Read More
Turtles in danger
In the pond of the Botahtaung pagoda, a local tragedy is unfolding: the turtles have fallen sick. Around 10 died two weeks ago and the pagoda trustee board made every endeavor to protect the reptiles sheltering in the religious site. → Read More
Hla Day grows bigger
Hla Day, the not-for-profit enterprise working with local artisans, has been an iconic shop in downtown Yangon’s cultural landscape. → Read More
Downtown alley honours 1970s’ cinema
The 1970s was a formidable time for movies – in Holywood the age of the blockbuster was hailed by the likes of Jaws, Superman and Star Wars. → Read More
Life on the jetty
Located near Botahtaung jetty, there is a nice and comfy resting room with a parquet floor, a television and overhead fan. → Read More
Newly-released book tells fierce stories of All Burma Students’ Democratic Front
"I came to know that life in the jungle was not like a Rambo film,” Htein Lin, a well-known artist and former member of the All Burma Students’ Democratic Front (ABSDF) once said. → Read More