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Yangon (Burmese: ရန်ကုန်, MLCTS rankun mrui, pronounced: [jàɴɡòʊɴ mjo̰]; also known as Rangoon, literally: "End of Strife") is a former capital of Myanmar (Burma) and the capital of Yangon Region. It also served as the Capital in Exile of Azad Hind. Yangon is the country's largest city with a population of over five million, and is the most important commercial centre, although the military government officially relocated the capital to Naypyidaw in March 2006.

Although Yangon's infrastructure is undeveloped compared to those of other major cities in south-east Asia, it has the largest number of colonial buildings in the region today. While many high-rise residential and commercial buildings have been constructed or renovated throughout downtown and Greater Yangon in the past two decades, most satellite towns that ring the city continue to be deeply impoverished.

Etymology

Yangon (ရန်ကုန်) is a combination of the two words yan (ရန်) and koun (ကုန်), which mean "enemies" and "run out of" respectively. It is also translated as "End of Strife". "Rangoon" most likely comes from the British imitation of the pronunciation of "Yangon" in the Arakanese language, which is [rɔ̀ɴɡʊ́ɴ].

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Another survivor pulled from rubble by Chinese rescuers in quake-hit Myanmar city Mandalay

People Daily 03 Apr 2025
YANGON, April 2 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese rescue team successfully extricated a male survivor at a hotel ...
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Man rescued in Myanmar's Nay Pyi Taw five days after earthquake

Suryaa 03 Apr 2025
Yangon, April 2 (IANS) A 26-year-old hotel staff member was rescued from the rubble of a collapsed hotel building in Myanmar's Nay Pyi Taw on Wednesday, five days after the 7.7-magnitude earthquake ...
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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, April 2

China.dot.org 02 Apr 2025
YANGON -- The Chinese rescue team successfully extricated a male survivor at a hotel on Wednesday afternoon in Mandalay, Myanmar. The man, an employee of the E-outfitting Golden Country Hotel, had been ...
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Man rescued in Myanmar's Nay Pyi Taw 5 days after earthquake

Xinhua 02 Apr 2025
YANGON, April 2 (Xinhua) -- A 26-year-old hotel staff member was rescued from the rubble of a collapsed hotel building in Myanmar's Nay Pyi Taw on Wednesday, five days after the 7.9-magnitude ...
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Myanmarese in Japan anxiously seek scraps of news on disaster

Asahi News 30 Mar 2025
The area where she works is dubbed “Little Yangon” because so many Myanmarese have opened businesses there ... in Yangon ... “I am worried because of a report that a hotel (in Mandalay) collapsed,” she said.
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Rescue convoys heading to quake-stricken area in Myanmar

Beijing News 29 Mar 2025
Myanmar's State Administration Council Chairman, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, has called for assistance from the international community.Alongside the highway, some communities in Yangon were still without electricity ... Hotels have been closed.
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Rescue convoys heading to quake-strike area in Myanmar

Beijing News 29 Mar 2025
Alongside the highway, some communities in Yangon were still without electricity ... Mobile networks were also not working smoothly, and there was no mobile signal in some areas of Yangon ... Hotels have been closed.
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Feature: Rescue convoys heading to quake-strike area in Myanmar

China.dot.org 29 Mar 2025
Alongside the highway, some communities in Yangon were still without electricity ... Mobile networks were also not working smoothly, and there was no mobile signal in some areas of Yangon ... Hotels have been closed.
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Myanmar and Thailand rocked by 7.7-magnitude earthquake

AOL 28 Mar 2025
Local media reported that at least two people died and 20 were injured after a hotel collapsed in Aungban. In a briefing to reporters in Geneva via video link from Yangon, Marie Manrique, programme ...
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