Yangon
Smoke, rubble and gunshot wounds have conjured images of Yangon neighbourhoods as “battlegrounds” this week, and though the term helps emphasise the severity of the situation, it can also be slightly misleading.
Scores of people were rescued from a blazing building in Yangon’s Than Zay market early Thursday, many brought to safety with a cherry-picker crane from the highest floors.
Air pollution rose to unhealthy levels in Yangon this morning in a worrying trend for public health.
A 47-year-old man was charged yesterday for his alleged role in holding up a Yangon bank using a fake bomb.
Yangon police are on the hunt for two gun men who robbed a CB Bank branch using a bundle of fake dynamite strapped to a cell phone this morning.
Myanmar and Singaporean artists breathed new life into the Chin Tsong Palace.
Dog and cat owners in Yangon who fail to register their pets could be fined and even jailed under a plan being considered by the Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC).
Footage of Yangon municipal workers smashing the oranges of an elderly vendor has been shared on Facebook 85,000 times so far and led to outrage about the way he was treated.
Remove your hand from the horn and step out of the car.