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Ex-child soldier gets two years in prison for telling of forced conscription
A Yangon court on Wednesday sentenced former child soldier Aung Ko Htwe to two years’ imprisonment with hard labor under Section 505(b) of Myanmar’s Penal Code, a provision...
Boat party ends with dockworker lost in Yangon River
A group of about 10 men and a few children sit silently on the bank of the Yangon River, watching small wooden boats and big metal ferries float by on the murky expanse. They are...
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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...