Sunset in Golden Valley: The rise and fall of Yangon’s high-end rental market
A luxurious housing bubble helped to complement members of the army and their associates within the decade of reforms that ...
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Seeing hands: Yangon’s river divers
Courageous crews of underwater scavengers plunge into Myanmar’s waterways to seek for scrap steel and salvage sunken vessels, a dangerous ...
‘We can’t live without scavenging’: The workers harvesting Yangon’s waste
Deepening poverty and elevated demand for scrap supplies are driving ever extra folks, together with kids, to scavenge for garbage ...
No respite from heat for Yangon’s factory workers
As temperatures throughout Myanmar have been reaching report ranges in latest months, manufacturing unit staff in Yangon complain that their ...
Education woes for Yangon’s ‘squatter’ families
So-called squatter households, or casual residents, in Yangon have lengthy been marginalised from society. Because the coup, nonetheless, their difficulties ...
Under pressure: why Yangon’s groundwater is slipping out of reach
Over-extraction of groundwater was already an issue earlier than the coup however consultants say it's more likely to worsen within ...