News Myanmar Tanintharyi: 77 Myanmar refugees deported from Thailand
The Immigration and Population Department stated on Sunday that 77 illegal Myanmar migrants have been ... by Kawthoung border gate in southern Tanintharyi district. They were apprehended by ...
News Myanmar Tanintharyi: The secrets of southern Myanmar’s Mergui Archipelago
a 2016 plan released by the Tanintharyi Tourism Development Committee, formed to focus on “cultural and nature projects” in Myanmar’s southern Tanintharyi region (which covers the Kra Isthmus and most ...
News Myanmar Tanintharyi: Meet the Innovators Battling Plastic Waste in Myanmar: Min Kyaw Zin
After learning how to create products using banana leaves Min Kyaw began thinking about how to adapt this locally to replace plastic and Styrofoam use. Now he is using by-products from betel farms to create bio-degradable goods and packaging.
News Myanmar Tanintharyi: Ethnic Thai community fights to preserve its cultural identity
FORGOTTEN BY their homeland, members of the Thai diaspora living in Myanmar’s Tanintharyi region are calling on their kin across the border for help, as they struggle to preserve their heritage and ...
News Myanmar Tanintharyi: Turning the industrial tide
Communities in Myanmar’s Dawei region are welcoming tourists into their ... appearance as residents fight waves of mega-projects continually crashing over the the Tanintharyi region. Aung Kyaw Thet, a ...
News Myanmar Tanintharyi: Abandoned houses a bad sign in Dawei
The project is located in the north of Dawei town in Myanmar's southern Tanintharyi region. It is supposed to be a liveable relocation area for for those whose homes and plantations were cleared to ...
News Myanmar Tanintharyi: A Myanmar town rakes in millions by letting out buildings to swiftlets
My guide Cho, like hundreds of other men — and even a few women — of the sleepy, seaside town of Bokpyin in Myanmar’s southern peninsular Tanintharyi region, is a bird-nest harvester. Until nine years ...
