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The card system, to be installed in 4,000 buses, will alleviate issues with passengers not having the right change and bus operators losing revenue through damaged notes.
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Burma
China Railway Eryuan Engineering pitches 38km rail project, which the company would fund, to Yangon regional lawmakers
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Burma
Lawmakers voted against a proposal to accept the loan because of the lack of details on how the money would be spent and the growing burden of debt Myanmar is already under.
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Burma
The loan is to be used to purchase 28 carriages from the lender, the Chinese government, as part of a series of major updates being made to the Yangon-Mandalay railway line.
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The family of Ko Aung Aung believes the taxi driver was beaten by Yangon police while in custody and died from his injuries.
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Dozens of striking workers from a Chinese-owned garment factory marched to a government compound in Yangon, securing a late-night meeting with the city’s chief minister.
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U Aung Kyaw Khaing said Weekly Eleven was wrong in reporting that the local planning and finance minister had shares in a company majority-owned by the Yangon government.
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Interview
Many tie the commercial capital’s increasing lawlessness to high unemployment, cheap drugs and under-resourced police
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Burma
The Myanmar military shut down the Myayeik Nyo high-rise project in Yangon after the developer breached the memorandum of understanding signed between the two sides.
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Burma
The Yangon Region government will take legal action against those who squat or do business on main roads in Yangon.
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Burma
The fire broke out in a vacant room in the hospital’s cancer department with no immediate reports of deaths or injuries.
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From the Archive
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Ong Kean Swan, who gave the city 20 million kyats, is accused of fraud in Singapore and Taiwan; his gambling investment scheme is blacklisted in many countries
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Guest Column
The proposal to extend Myanmar’s commercial capital to the west is on a scale without precedent anywhere in the world
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