1. The capital, Yangon, certainly looks like a boomtown.

2. At Insein in Yangon, troops were brought in when 400 monks extended the boycott beyond the Oct. 20 deadline.

3. In late June anti-government leaflets distributed in Yangon denounced the military-directed constitutional negotiations.

4. But on the streets of Yangon, it takes 125 kyats to buy a dollar.

5. The Port of Yangon, the principal trading centre of Myanmar, saturates in the nested area.

6. Myanmar's major cities of Mandalay and Yangon survive in the dark ages, with each apartment running on self-funded power generators.

7. Roundtrip economy class ticket from Hong Kong to Yangon via Singapore by Singapore Airlines and SilkAir.

8. YANGON Pagodagold - coated landmark that had been cordoned off with soldiers and barbed wire only days before.

9. At around 4 p.m., authorities removed the barricades from in front of her lakeside villa in Yangon and entered to read a release order to Ms. Suu Kyi, as hundreds of supporters gathered nearby.

10. It devastated much of the fertile Irrawaddy delta and Yangon, the nation's main city.

11. Emeritus Professor, Dept. of Library and Information Studies, University of Yangon. Doctor of Letters (University of Western Sydney, 1999).

12. On Monday ( September 24 th ) the protest in Yangon was said to be 100, 000 - strong.

13. Today you can now fly direct from Kunming to Yangon, Hanoi,(http://) Hong Kong and Singapore.

14. On Wednesday theauthorities announced a two - month night - time curfew and troops surroundedmonasteries in Yangon.

15. Caption: BUDDHA: Young Myanmar monks ran beside a gigantic reclining Buddha statue in Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday.

16. Soon afterTuesday's march ended, troops and riot police moved in to positions around Yangon.

17. "The shopkeeper gave me 3 sweets for change of 150 kyat when I bought a bottle of cough mixture," complained a Yangon driver.