Heavy rainfall displaces thousands in southern Myanmar

STORY: Heavy rainfall displaces thousands in southern Myanmar DATELINE: Oct. 10, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:24 LOCATION: YANGON, Myanmar CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of people wading through flood water in Bago 2. various of people rowing boats through floodwater STORYLINE: Heavy rainfall hit Bago Region of southern Myanmar on Sunday, displacing thousands and disrupting rail traffic, local authorities said on Monday. U Thaung Shwe, director of Bago Region's Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, told Xinhua on Monday that a total of 14,304 people were taking shelter in 36 relief camps because of the floods. Rescue operations were underway as the water level continued to rise, he said. Nearly 800 passengers from the two passenger trains en route to Yangon were transported with vessels to Yangon on Sunday evening due to the floods, the country's Ministry of Transport and Communications reported. The trips of four passenger trains that ran through Bago township on Sunday were also canceled

Myanmar aims to start Rohingya repatriation by June

Myanmar aims to start Rohingya repatriation by June

Myanmar Social Welfare minister Win Myat Aye (far R) speaks at a press briefing on Rohingya repatriation while Office of the Union Government minister Thaung Tun (far L) looks on, at the National Reconciliation and Peace Center in Yangon on April 19, 2018. Sitting in between the two is State Counselor Office minister Kyaw Tint Swe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U Thaung Tun

U Thaung Tun

Burmese Investment and Foreign Economic Relations Minister U Thaung Tun attends a Czech-Burmese Business Forum on June 4, 2019, in Prague, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Deml)

Japan, Myanmar talks

Japan, Myanmar talks

Kentaro Sonoura (L), a special adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and Myanmar Union Minister Thaung Tun hold talks in Myanmar's capital Naypyidaw on Feb. 8, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo