Reprieve Possible for Yangon’s Colonial Gems
Frozen in time by decades of shambolic economic mismanagement and an economy closed to international investment, the city of Yangon in Myanmar has a collection of some of the finest colonial buildings in Asia because of British rule, which lasted from 1824 to 1948.
The subsequent Burmese Way to Socialism impoverished the country and immobilized developme…
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