Health Ministers of WHO South-East Asia Region to discuss key challenges next week

NEW Delhi, 30 August 2019: Health Ministers of member countries of WHO South-East Asia Region are meeting here next week to discuss ways of addressing health impact of climate change, the high burden of tuberculosis and strengthening capacities for emergency risk management.
Mitigating Effects of Climate Change
WHILE the international debate on Climate Change is on-going , it seems that Climate Change is already creeping up on planet Earth. The changing weather patterns of extreme temperature rises and droughts in some parts of the world with extremes of storms and rainfall in other parts are creating havoc in some countries and communities around the world.
Be prepared to do a good turn daily
There are two main sources for national development. They are human resources and natural resources. The principle requirement of human resources is the education, and human resources development is also the main goal of education. Education promotes human intelligence and widens the scope of knowledge and innovative ideas, and the formation of scout bodies is one of the endeavours to reach this goal.
Rid the scourge of deforestation
THE Global New Light of Myanmar of 6 Au-gust  2019  conveyed  a news item with the title of ‘‘Indonesian man walk-ing in reverse to save forests’’. According to the news, an Indo-nesian man is walking 700 kilo-metres (43 miles) from his home on  a  volcano  in  East  Java  to  Jakarta in the hope of drawing attention  to  the  archipelago’s  quickly shrinking forests—and he is doing it backwards.
Microplastic pollution is everywhere, but not necessarily a risk to human health
IN ITS first summary of the latest research into the impact of the tiny plastic pollutants on humans-----------
Six Agendas for CPU
SEVERAL critics have complained that the anti-corruption efforts are extremely difficult to be achieved in Myanmar.
Supporting and promoting MSMEs in Myanmar — a personal thought
MICRO, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and small & medium enterprise (SMEs) are deemed important as MSMEs and SMEs outnumber large companies by a wide margin and also employ many more people.