A widely accepted definition characterizes natural hazards as “those elements of the physical environment----------

According to the findings in the (2016) Myanmar Demographic Health Survey (MDHS), youth between the age brackets of 15 years to 24 years only a few numbers of youth have the comprehensive knowledge on HIV issues such as 16 percent among the girls and 18 percent among the boys.

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.

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.

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.

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.