LANMADAW
Lanmadaw Township is situated on the western edge of downtown Yangon and makes up part of Chinatown, which was created when the British expanded Rangoon in the 1850s. It is home to part of the city's new, controversial night market, where vendors have been forced to sell their wares after being banned from the streets in an effort to combat traffic congestion. The night market has been the site of conflict between vendors and authorities because the market only has space for 1,600 vendors out of a total of 6,000. Lanmadaw is also where a bridge to Dala Township is expected to be built, which many fear will just make traffic worse.
Yangon surgeons perform first leg reattachment
A team of surgeons at Yangon General Hospital performed the hospital’s first leg reattachment surgery last week for a man whose right leg was severed by a lawnmower. The...
POPULAR NEIGHBORHOODS
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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...