2,000 workers demand $4 daily minimum wage in Hlaingthaya protest
More than 2,000 workers demonstrated in Yangon’s Hlaingthaya Township on Sunday to demand an increase in the minimum daily wage of K3,600 (US$2.68) to K5,600 ($4) and the...
Woman stabs her girlfriend to death before killing herself
On November 15, the Yangon Police Force reported the deaths of two women who were in a relationship. One of the parties involved was an 18-year-old woman from Htantapin...
Yangon govt to evict ‘fake squatters’ and send others to ‘rehab’ camps
Hundreds of thousands of residents of the city will be surveyed in a census.
In crowded Hlaing Tharyar township, slums sit next to gated communites
The Yangon of the future?
Maid allegedly sexually assaulted during robbery
30-year-old arrested.
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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...