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Mobile phone, gas leak cause explosion at Yangon shopping center
Eight workers were injured by an explosion at the Marketplace shopping center on Pyay Road in 6.5 Mile on Saturday night. The workers were sent to Yangon General Hospital for burn...
Yangon University’s Hlaing Campus reopens after 20 years
School is back in session this week at Yangon University’s Hlaing Campus, 20 years after the government closed it in response to political unrest. Over 1,000 students have...
FDA destroys 7,000 ‘bean blood’ chunks containing formaldehyde
In Myanmar’s ongoing war against the use of embalming fluid in food production, the Yangon Food and Drug Administration (FDA) caught five vendors in Hmawbi and Hlaing Townships...
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Dagon
‘Little NGO world’ ‘Foreigners’ ghetto’ ‘Hipster Yangon’ Located...
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Mingaladon
Mingaladon Township is best known for being home to the ever-expanding Yangon...
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Kyauktada
This is the beating heart of downtown Like Pabedan, it’s full of colonial...
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Bahan
Coming up north from downtown, we hit one of Yangon’s better known...
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Botahtaung
Botahtaung winds up from the gritty port and its gleaming gold pagoda through...
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Kamaryut
Farther west along University Avenue road is Kamaryut Township Judging by the...