Yangon

Yangon residents who traveled to the Irrawaddy delta trying to bring their own supplies said there was a clear lack of adequate aid.

While in custody in a Yangon jail during his trial, he had a seizure and was hospitalized for a week.

In arranging for her release, that person said, the military hadasked her to agree not to leave Yangon and not to give public speeches.

September 2000: Suu Kyi is placed under house arrest after attempting to leave Yangon for a political meeting.

That was one year ago. I departed from Yangon less than one month before the peaceful protest to Shwedagon Paya went wrong.

Though only an hour away by plane from Bangkok, Yangon in many ways feels more like a journey back in time.

European ambassadors have been listening to all opposition views in Yangon as they conduct their annual review of the issue.

Japan said it might cut aid to Myanmar after the shooting of a Japanese journalist by a soldier during the Yangon protests.

'It's such a positive vibe, ' said Philipp Hoffmann, general manager of the venture, which is based in the commercial capital of Yangon.

Some Burmese drove out in their cars from Yangon to try to offer whatever help they could to their compatriots.

Another Yangon resident, a 66-year-old retired government employee, was more reserved about the news.

Its arch-foe, America, was allowed to land military cargo planes in Yangon, the main city, this week.

When the chance to spend a few days in Yangon with my husband came up this past summer, I shrugged off my reservations.

My last night in Yangon was spent drinking beer out of plastic water bottles at a popular roadside turnout.

"Where were the ethnic armies? " asked one resident of Yangon, plaintively, of the uprising against the junta in September.

Photos of partisans walking the streets of Yangon and other constituencies have been plastered across the domestic papers.

The establishment of a joint-ventured'editions, overseas Xinhua Bookstore, m&a, and the reconstituted, is busy in the yangon sea.

Kids in Yangon were beer guzzling club DJ's and skateboarders one day and vegetarian Buddhist monks the next.

But the queue at "New Day" , one of dozens of newly privatised stations in Yangon, the former capital, is a sign of progress.

These developments have led to a cautious optimism among Yangon's jaded residents.

Blood-soaked sandals lie on a street in Yangon after the troops used automatic weapons to break up demonstrations.

The United States Embassy in Yangon said on Thursday that it was "deeply concerned" by what it called a continued government offensive.

Great Pagoda in Yangon is known as the Oriental art treasures, is the world famous pagoda.

TC volunteers are setting out to reconstruct a cyclone-hit school in Yangon, Myanmar.

To get a taste of real life in Yangon, join the soccer-mad crowds during a weekend match.

Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar's democracy movement, met a government minister and took a brief drive outside Yangon.

A long-time Bangkok resident, I've traveled extensively in Asia, but hadn't yet made it to Yangon, formerly known as Rangoon.

A woman releases fishes into the lake in Yangon, Myanmar.

People visit the Shwedagon Pagoda during the yellow robe weaving festival in Yangon, Burma (Myanmar).

European food is served mostly at the hotels and there are a couple of restaurants in Yangon serving Italian food.

Local rumour ascribed it to the advice of fortune-tellers, who foretold revolt and disaster in Yangon.

Art exhibitions, some featuring risky hidden political messages, open nearly every week in Yangon, Myanmar's main city.

Yangon International Airport is the main gateway and there are regular daily flights to Yangon from Bangkok and Singapore.

Four years later Pegu fell, and Takayutpi, the Pegu king, fled to Prome (northwest of the present Yangon [ Rangoon ]).

Shwe Dagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar is breath-taking. It has 72 tons of Gold and countless gems and diamonds on the pagodas.

For two days, plain-clothes security men blockaded the golden Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, the country's most sacred Buddhist shrine.

It devastated much of the fertile Irrawaddy delta and Yangon, the nation's main city.

Hakan Tongkul, with the United Nation's World Food Programme, said residents in Yangon needed urgent assistance.

Yet Yangon's decrepit gentility exerts a certain charm amid the increasing homogeneity of urban Asia.

Telephones fax facilities are available in most hotels in Yangon and Mandalay but charges are quite expensive.

Diplomats in Yangon confirm that a release of some or all of the prisoners is now under consideration, and could even be imminent.

In Yangon, the main city, essential supplies could still be bought but prices had soared.

Yangon had no "soul" either, when it became the capital of British Burma.

Visiting Yangon. -------but I think Yangon is not very bad although many people are in bad living condition.

A woman affected by Cyclone Nargis breast feeds her child on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, on May 17, 2008.

The junta refused. So the monks took to the streets of Yangon and other cities in their thousands, marching and chanting prayers.

5 regions, including Yangon, have been declared disaster zones, said a television report.

Yangon, Myanmar: A tradition of donating gold to the pagoda that dates back to the 15th century has clearly paid off.

I landed in Yangon , the capital city of Myanmar, a very ignorant young woman.

Soon after Tuesday's march ended, troops and riot police moved in to positions around Yangon.

It is reported that trains starting from the Yangon, Myanmar's second largest city Mandalay sailing.

The Foreign Ministry had launched an emergency response program quickly and kept in close contact with the Chinese Embassy in Yangon.

For two days it barred monks from the golden Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, the country's holiest shrine.

Myanmar is a country of tea shops and there are several fast food centres and snack bars in Yangon and Mandalay.

If elected in his Yangon constituency, he says he will focus on health and education reforms.

The generals 'could decide they have to solve' the border problem now because of the election, said one Yangon diplomat.

Many have long assumed that the road to change in Myanmar led through her lakeside house in Yangon.

Many residents of Yangon would simply be happy to get electricity.

Its activists tell foreign diplomats in Yangon that they can continue their struggle for democracy as an NGO.

Rangoon (now Yangon) is the former capital of Burma (now Myanmar).

Change, however, is slowly creeping into Yangon.

Soon after that march ended, troops and riot police moved intopositions around Yangon.

Armed with a couple of foreign players, Yangon United handily won against Rakhapura United, 4-0.

Both MPT ISP and Myanmar Teleport ISP cut down internet access in Yangon and Mandalay since this morning.

The Yangon electorate is well aware of the origins of the USDP and NUP.

Friday night in Yangon, and things didn't look promising.

On May 3, Cyclone Nargis struck the area surrounding Yangon and has likely killed more than 50, 000 people.

China's recent border epicenter about 300 km from Yangon about 880 km.

People watch a 3D movie at the newly opened Minglar cinema in Yangon, April 19, 2012.

In Myanmar, a tiny, pampered middle class enjoy luxury hotels, golf and shopping malls in Yangon;

Application of numerical wave model SWAN at Yangon Port

Panditarama Meditation Center near Yangon

Yangon School of Political Science

Assessment on the Yangon river channel based on fuzzy synthetic evaluation

Remarks by President Obama at the University of Yangon