He received his bachelor's degree in English from Dagon University and a graduate diploma in English from the University of Foreign Languages, Yangon.
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Ahlon Township was once home to Thiri Mingala Market, Yangon's largest wholesale and retail market until 2010, when the Yangon City Development Committee began preparations to move the market to Hlaing Township in the suburbs, to allow for lane expansions on Strand Road and expansion of Asia World's wharves.
Air Bagan Flight 11 was a scheduled domestic flight in Myanmar, operated by Air Bagan, from Yangon to Heho that, on 25 December 2012, while attempting to land at Heho Airport, struck power lines, crash landed on a road and came to a stop in a paddy field and caught on fire.
The AYA Bank's head office is located in the Hlaing township area of Yangon.
During the early stages of World War II, from January – May 1942, Imperial Japanese Army quickly overran Burma, and after the capture of Rangoon, freed Baw Maw from prison.
Wah Nu was born in Yangon in 1977, and launched herself on an artistic career after graduating from the University of Culture, Yangon in 1998 where she majored in music.
The Burmese hip hop is one of the most successful music genres in Myanmar today, and arguably the most popular form of music among the urban youth of Yangon and Mandalay.
It is popular in the southern coastal regions around the town of Myeik ("Baik" is the Burmese pronunciation) and in Yangon, the largest city in the country.
The CB Bank's head office is located in the Latha township area of Yangon.
In 2003, the company opened a major retail shopping centre, Dagon Centre at the Myaynigone junction in Yangon's Sanchaung Township.
Gymkhana Ground, a now defunct cricket venue in Rangoon, Burma (today Yangon, Myanmar)
As a center important to Buddhism, Hilsa has connections to Bangkok, Singapore, Colombo, Thimphu and Yangon.
IOB started up simultaneously at three branches, one each in Karaikudi, Madras (Chennai) and Rangoon (Yangon).
In November 2005, the military junta began transferring the government away from Yangon to a location near Kyatpyay, just outside Pyinmana, for the purpose of designating a new capital city.
The bank branch network extends throughout Thailand’s 77 provinces, as well as internationally with five branches overseas in Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Cayman Islands, Shenzhen and Chengdu and four representative offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Kunming and Yangon.
Born Maung Shwe in a village called Hsaisu near Thonze in Tharrawaddy District, British Burma, Kyaw Zaw was educated in the traditional manner, mainly in monastic schools often becoming a novice monk during the Buddhist lent, until the final year when he went to the Pazundaung Municipal High School in Rangoon.
Awarded the “Fellowship of the Dublin Metropolitan University of Ireland" in 2004 at aConvocation held in Yangon, Myanmar, on 15-6-2005.
In early May, Minhla Minkhaung Kyaw's musket corps led the capture the important town of Dagon (present-day Yangon) opposite the main seaport of Syriam (Thanlyin).
In 1774, in the Burmese city of Rangoon, the Burmese King Hsinbyushin (known in Thai as "King Mangra") decided to organize a seven-day, seven-night religious festival in honor of Buddha's relics.
After a period of intensive training, the orchestra finally held its first public concert at the National Theatre in Yangon on 1 April 2007, playing the music of Haydn.
For years, its main broadcast center is at 426 Pyay Road in Kamayut in Yangon.
It has its broadcasting headquarters in both the administrative capital of Naypyidaw and Yangon, Myanmar's largest city.
North Dagon is connected to the mainland Yangon across the Pazundaung Creek by the Panglong Bridge and the Ba Htoo Bridge.
The North Okkalapa General Hospital is an affiliated teaching hospital of the University of Medicine 2, Yangon, located in North Okkalapa Township in the eastern part of Yangon, Burma.
The hotels include PARKROYAL on Beach Road, Singapore, PARKROYAL on Kitchener Road, PARKROYAL Darling Harbour Sydney, PARKROYAL Parramatta Sydney, PARKROYAL Melbourne Airport Tullamarine, PARKROYAL Kuala Lumpur, PARKROYAL Penang, PARKROYAL Yangon and PARKROYAL Saigon.
In 2009, Popular expanded its retail network through granting its Myanmar partner, City Mart Holding Co Ltd, an exclusive license to operate the business of retailing products under the Popular trademarks in the cities of Yangon and Mandalay in Myanmar.
In 1755, Alaungpaya began the southern push, capturing the Irrawaddy delta in April and Dagon (now Yangon) in May.
He lived at No. 6-A, Myaynigone Plaza, Bargayar Street, Sanchaung Township, Yangon, Myanmar, near the Dagon Center.
Although it plans to use the Kyaungtha Stadium in Mawlamyaing as its home field, it presently shares the Aung San Stadium in Yangon as its home stadium with three other clubs, as the country lacks adequate facilities outside Yangon and Mandalay.
Huawei who has built 40 percent of the towers and ZTE has built 60 percent in Myanmar, which amounts to 1500 across the country, said it has built the towers mostly in Yangon, Mandalay and Naypyidaw.
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According to MPT's official statistics as of July 2010, the country had over 400,000 Internet users (0.8% of the population) with the vast majority of the users located in the two largest cities, Yangon and Mandalay.
The group was established in 1930 in Rangoon, after Indian dock workers and their families were murdered by Burman dock workers who believed that the Indians had taken jobs that rightfully belonged to them.
The facility is also adjacent to the soon-to-be-developed Special Economic Zone at Thanlyin-Kyauktan area immediately south of Yangon.
Helfen ohne Grenzen (Help without Frontiers) reported that "Soldiers from the 66th LID (Light Infantry Division) have turned their weapons against other government troops and possibly police in North Okkalappa township in Yangon and are defending the protesters. At present unsure how many soldiers involved."
The most popular available tourist destinations in Burma include big cities such as Yangon and Mandalay; religious sites in Mon State, Pindaya, Bago and Hpa-An; nature trails in Inle Lake, Kengtung, Putao, Pyin Oo Lwin; ancient cities such as Bagan and Mrauk-U; as well as beaches in Ngapali, Ngwe-Saung, Mergui.
Hong Pang Group is based at Panghsang with offices also in Yangon, Mandalay, Lashio, Tachilek and Mawlamyine.
The area from Yangon to Myitkyina is mostly monsoon forest, while peninsular Malaysia south of Mawlamyine is primarily rainforest, with some overlap between the two.
In December 2012, Japan International Cooperation Agency began its collaboration with Yangon City Development Committee to develop a master plan for the Greater Yangon region, including the issue of public transport.
Operated by the city government, Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC), City FM is one of two radio stations available in Yangon.
The township has a large Tamil community, and a rich collection of Hindu temples, (most of which are dedicated to Kali and Ganesh) as well as a large Chinese temple called Fushan Si Temple, believed to be the largest in Yangon.
At Pagan, Kyansittha was sent into exile again—this time to Dala (modern Yangon) for renewing his affair with Manisanda.
The farms growing the specialized crops are: paddy in Hmawbi in Yangon Region; maize and cereals in Aungban in Shan State; pulse and oil crops in Magway in Magway Region; cotton in Nangyaw in Mandalay Region; sugarcane in Nyaungbintha in Bago Region; perennial crops in Hpa Auk in Mon State, and horticultural crops in Hlegu in Yangon Region.
It was established by First Myanmar Investment Company (FMI) in August 1993, with its first branch in Mingala Taungnyunt Township in Yangon.