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KAMARYUT
Augustine’s Antiques: Stewards of Myanmar history
The family behind Augustine’s Antiques have been collecting rare and beautiful objects from throughout Myanmar’s history for more than 50 years. In a cramped,...
Half-price dim sum at Paradise Dynasty until Sept. 14
In honor of its one-year anniversary, Paradise Dynasty (“Legend of Xiao Long Bao”) is offering everything at half price until Sept. 14. The Yangon branch of this Singaporean...
Women’s group says rape, child abandonment linked to girls ‘losing values and virginity’
Representatives of the Myanmar Women’s Affairs Federation (MWAF) told a gathering of young people last weekend that unwanted conception, infant abandonment, and child rape can...
Buddhist monk jailed for a month for anti-Rohingya protest
Ultra-nationalist Buddhist monk Pamaukkha was sentenced to a month in jail by a Kamayut Township court yesterday for leading a protest outside the US embassy in Yangon last year...
Police officer killed by drunk driver while investigating car crash
A police officer was killed on Monday by a drunk driver who drove onto the scene of an earlier car accident. Around 2am on Monday, the Kamaryut police station was informed of a...
Skateboarding group beat up by 20-strong mob in skate park
Five teenagers were beat up by a mob of about 20 people at the skate park under the Hledan flyover over the weekend, police confirm. The incident took place around 4pm on Sunday...
Driver hits pedestrian, flees scene, hits another pedestrian
You know how some really awful people commit hit-and-runs? Well, Kamaryut police are now prosecuting a woman who committed a hit-and-run… and then hit another person and (tried...
NLD official sentenced to 6 months in prison over Facebook post
Political scientist and NLD official Myo Yan Naung Thein was sentenced to six months in prison today after the Kamayut Township court found him guilty of violating Section 66(D)...
Chinese students dominate the Burmese language classroom
Students from China outnumber other groups of foreign students at the Yangon University of Foreign Languages, Eleven reported this week. Among the 249 foreign students...
Strangers offer family a way out of poverty, now Yangon residents want to help
The story of a single act of kindness went viral in Yangon last week, and now residents are clamoring to get involved in poverty alleviation projects in the city. “Dear people...
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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...