5 June 2026 | Yangon Good morning distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, It is very nice to see many familiar faces in the room. Let me start my opening remark with two confessions. First – I did not write this speech using AI. You can trust me that this is a very organic speech. Second – I will not be holding any food in my hand during the speech. For those who just met me for the first time – I am known for holding different foods in my hand during my speeches to d

Bangkok, 25 March 2026 မြန်မာလိုဖတ်ရှုရန် ဤနေရာကိုနှိပ်ပါ။ After attending ADB’s Food Systems Forum in Manila, I had the opportunity to speak at a technical Forum in Bangkok organized by IFPRI, World Bank, LIFT and other partners under the theme “Strengthening Myanmar’s Agri-food Systems – Evidence, Experiences and Future Directions”. I shared the Food Security Panel alongside Country Representative of FAO, Ms. Hang Thi Thanh Pham; renowned nutrition and food systems expert,

Keynote Speech SBN PowerBiz Project Closure Event 18 September, 2025 Rose Garden Hotel, Yangon <Click here to read in English> <Click here to read in English> တက်ရောက်လာကြတဲ့ ဧည့်သည်များ၊ လုပ်ဖေါ်ကိုင်ဖက် မိတ်ဆွေများအားလုံး မင်္ဂလာပါ။ ဒီနေ့ SBN Myanmar ရဲ့ Power Biz Bridging Business and Nutri Link-Up Event မှာ အခုလို စုံစုံညီညီ တက်ရောက်ပေးကြရင်း ပြန်လည်ဆုံတွေ့ကြရတာ ဝမ်းသာပါတယ်။ ကျွန်တော် ကျေးဇူးတင်စကားလေးနဲ့ ပထမဆုံး စပါရစေ။ အခု Program လေးဖြစ်မြောက်အောင် ပံ့ပိုးပေးတဲ့ Worl

22 October 2025, Yangon Click HERE to read in English တက်ရောက်လာကြတဲ့ ဧည့်သည်များ၊ လုပ်ဖေါ်ကိုင်ဖက် မိတ်ဆွေများအားလုံး မင်္ဂလာပါ။ ကျွန်တော် အဖွင့်စကားကို ပွင့်ပွင့်လင်းလင်းဘဲ မေးခွန်းလေးတခုနဲ့ စချင်ပါတယ်။ “ကျွန်တော်တို့ ရှင်သန်နေထိုင်တဲ့ ပါတ်ဝန်းကျင်က အရာတွေ — ရာသီဥတု၊ ဈေးကွက်၊ အစားအစာ၊ နောက်ဆုံး ကျွန်တော်တို့ အနာဂါတ်တွေပါ မသေချာရေရာမှုတွေနဲ့ပြည့်လာတဲ့ အခါကျွန်တော်တို့ ဘာကိုဆုတ်ကိုင်ထားရမလဲ။ ဘယ်လိုကြံ့ကြံခံရင်ဆိုင်မလဲ။” ဒီမေးခွန်းလေးကို ဒီမှာခဏထားပြီး ကျွန်တော် ၂၀၁၉ ခုနှ

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It was a fine Wednesday morning at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, in November 2024. I was attending the Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit. I stood beside a table where I was supposed to host a roundtable on Myanmar’s current agri-food realities. The event app showed five delegates had registered. A few minutes passed — two delegates arrived. I greeted them warmly. They sat for a while waiting for others … until they realized the reality: Myanmar’s future is no longer int

Patterns are one of the most generous gifts of nature. They are an open book that nature lays before us, saying: “Here — this is how I work.” The earliest patterns I learned during childhood were from within — biological rhythms that held their own logic. In different rented houses in poor, suburban neighborhoods of Insein, I remember how hunger came like clockwork, how certain foods brought energy while others dulled my senses. I learned to expect sleepiness after a day in t

Opening Message Mekong CREATES National Project Launching Event July 8, 2025 Pan Pacific Hotel, Yangon <Click here to read in Burmese. မြန်မာလိုဖတ်ရှုရန် ဤနေရာကိုနှိပ်ပါ။> Mingalarbar and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us this morning despite your busy schedules. It’s great to see many familiar faces in the room – colleagues from Mekong Institute, representatives from different stakeholder groups including FAO, World Food Program, SBN, UNOPS, Myanmar Rice Feder

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