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The Irrawaddy River (Burmese: ဧရာဝတီမြစ်, pronounced [ʔèjàwədì mjɪʔ], official romanisation: Ayeyarwady [5] [note 1]) is the principal river of Myanmar, running through the centre of the country. Myanmar’s most important commercial waterway, it is about 1,350 miles (2,170 km) long.
Irrawaddy, an alternative spelling of Ayeyarwady Region, an administrative division of Burma; The Irrawaddy, a Burmese news publication based in Chiang Mai, Thailand; Irrawaddy dolphin, a dolphin which is found in the Irrawaddy River "Waters of Irrawaddy", the first song in Beyond Rangoon, composed by Hans Zimmer
While the Irrawaddy reports Pekhon has been taken, unlike concurrent reports by Bni Online and KT News, which report fighting in Pekhon. [83] [84] [85] The Frontier Myanmar also reported Pekhon was taken, but already in october. [72] While the Irrawaddy reports major fighting in Mobye for control of the Pekon-Moebye-Loikaw road.
News reports such as Aung San Suu Kyi's campaign against the Myitsone Dam are not censored. In Burma, the Irrawaddy River, on the bank of which major historic cities such as Bagan were built, is considered as the birthplace of Burmese civilization. For that reason, The Burmese public protests against the dam project, which would inevitably ...
Ayeyarwady Region (Burmese: ဧရာဝတီတိုင်းဒေသကြီး [ʔèjàwədì táiɰ̃ dèθa̰ dʑí], S'gaw Karen: ထံထၣ်စွ့, Pwo Western Karen: ထံၫထၪကျိၩ့; formerly Ayeyarwady Division and Irrawaddy Division) is a region of Myanmar, occupying the delta region of the Ayeyarwady River (Irrawaddy River).
Some said they feared airstrikes by the Myanmar military after the rebel capture of Myawaddy, a town of around 200,000 people lying across the Moei River from the Thai city of Mae Sot. Thailand's ...
The Pathein River (Burmese: ပုသိမ်မြစ်), formerly called the Bassein River, is the westernmost distributary of the Irrawaddy river in the Irrawaddy delta of Myanmar flowing through Ayeyarwady Region. [1] The river is also interchangeably known as the Ngawun River (Burmese: ငဝန်းမြစ်). [2]
Myanmar's military-run government is battling insurgencies on several fronts and has suffered a series of defeats in frontier areas since last October, when rebel groups launched a coordinated ...