Irrawaddy in a sentence

An Irrawaddy Dolphin in the Irrawaddy River in upper Myanmar.

So we had put up warning signs asking commuters to use the bypass,” police Lt. Col. Tun Shwe, of the Irrawaddy Region Police Force, told The Irrawaddy.

A barge transports teak logs from forests in northern Myanmar via the Irrawaddy River to markets in Mandalay or Yangon.

On August 2, The Irrawaddy that the AA was concentrating its fire on the last junta battalion defending the town.

Thank you, General Tun Myat Naing, for answering The Irrawaddy’s questions so patiently.

The baby dolphin, which is endangered, belongs to a species called the Irrawaddy.

Dr. Maji La Wawm, a spokesman for the two pastors, told The Irrawaddy Friday that the police came to the church yesterday and detained the priests.

In the first, a lacquered and silver-leafed frame standing on the floor carries six watercolour paintings on silk extending the environmental fables of the film – a boy caring for a beached Irrawaddy dolphin, young pioneers spraying insecticide.

It was not designed by the party nor did I design it alone,” U Aung Kyi Nyunt told The Irrawaddy.

My niece was hit as she ran,” Daw Ma Yay told The Irrawaddy.

The turtles once basked in the hundreds at the mouth of the Irrawaddy river south of Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, with a range stretching all the way to Bhamo in the country’s north.

This week, The Irrawaddy sits down with NLD lawmaker U Aung Kyi Nyunt to discuss the long road to democracy, and the merits of Myanmar’s ‘obligation-based’ society.

We heard that artillery shells fell on the village amid the fighting,” U Hla Shwe told The Irrawaddy.

Also on Friday morning, a passenger bus traveling from Muse, a motorbike and a light truck were burned to varying degrees in Kutkai Township, locals told The Irrawaddy.

And there are camps that just manage to survive,” REC chairman U Shwe Paw Sein told The Irrawaddy.

Besides those eight employees, the AA took 120 civilians from Chin State’s Paletwa into Bangladesh, and only two have so far managed to escape, Tatmadaw spokesman Brigadier-General Zaw Min Tun told The Irrawaddy.

Experts point out that the dam site is important for its biodiversity and environmentalists warn the project would both destroy the natural beauty of the Irrawaddy River and disrupt water flow downstream.

He assured that Korea will stand firmly by Myanmar in its journey towards “a miracle on the Irrawaddy River”.

He doesn’t want to accept the resignation of his deputy,” a government source told The Irrawaddy on condition of anonymity on Wednesday.

I’m Ye Ni, editor of The Irrawaddy Burmese edition.