Myanmar Police Force supply water to drought-hit-areas

MEMBERS of the Myanmar Police Force are in the process of supplying water for drinking, washing and bathing to communities who have recently been facing water-shortages.

Members of the Air Police Force (Yangon-Branch) under the Myanmar Police Force donated 700 drinking water bottles— each bottle holding 20 litres— to villagers of Ahnochaunggyi village in Dala Township, Yangon Region on 30 April.

On 1 May, Members of the Police Forces in Magwe and Thayet Townships, Magwe Region distributed 8000 gallons of drinking and bathing water, members of Myo Ma Police Station in Ann Township, Rakhine State supplied 1700 gallons of water. On Monday members of the Thaton Township Myo Ma Police Force and Chaungsone Township Police Outpost in Mon State distributed 2050 gallons of water while members of the Kataikkyi Police Outpost donated 1300 gallons of drinking water to residents in their townships.

On that same day members of the Dawei District Police Force supplied 400 gallons of drinking water to the people of Launglong Township.—Ye Zarni

The Pulitzer Prize winner Myanmar

The AP team that investigated seafood caught by slaves poses at the George Polk Awards luncheon in New York,  Friday, April 8, 2016. From left: Martha Mendoza, Robin McDowell, Esther Htusan and Margie Mason. Photo: AP

A Kachin female journalist accompanied by other three member of the Associated Press (AP) team won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in public service for her reporting.

She and three members of the Associated Press (AP) team worked for an investigation of severe labour abuses in the Southeast Asian fishing industry that tied to the supply of seafood to American supermarkets and restaurants, reporting that freed 2,000 slaves, brought perpetrators to justice and inspired reforms.

Esther Htusan, 29, is the first ever woman journalist in Myanmar to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize. –GNLM