Skip to main content

page search

Issuesurban areasLandLibrary Resource
Displaying 2497 - 2508 of 3131

THE VILLAGE ACT (1907)

Legislation & Policies
December, 1907
Myanmar

BURMA ACT VI 1907 1st JANUARY 1908.....PRELIMINARY...DUTIES AND POWERS OF VILLAGE COMMITTEES, HEADMEN AND RURAL
POLICEMAN...GENERAL DUTIES OF VILLAGERS...PROVISIONS RESPECTING RESIDENCE IN VILLAGE=TRACTS AND ERECTION OF
HOUSES...PAWN SHOPS...PWES...SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS

Beyond Rangoon

Reports & Research
April, 2006
Myanmar

As Burma’s military rulers settle into their new administrative capital near Pyinmana, the fate of Rangoon remains an open question

Rangoon Bets on Business

Reports & Research
April, 2006
Myanmar

Burma's former capital is still the country's commercial hub...

The sudden relocation of Burma's capital may have sent government officials and Burmese civil servants moving north to Pyinmana, but for those involved in business Rangoon is still the center of Burma's commercial universe.

The new capital's largest port and its main airport. While Pyinmana remains cut off from the outside world, the former capital has direct international flights to such cities as Bangkok, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Taipei...

Dragging Burma Back to the Past

Reports & Research
October, 2008
Myanmar

WHEN Snr-Gen Than Shwe relocated the seat of Burma’s military government to a site some 320 km (200 miles) north of the former capital, Rangoon, he did so without any fanfare. Acting solely on his prerogatives as the undisputed ruler of the country, he offered no explanations to the Burmese people or the rest of the world. The move was announced only after it had become a fait accompli.