Zay Yar Lin
The Myanmar Times
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New Aung Mingalar departure terminal to ease traffic squeeze
Muncipal authorities say a new departure terminal is needed at Aung Mingalar highway bus station to relieve crippling traffic congestion. → Read More
Construction ministry targets source of housing request leak
Investigatiors are interviewing staff from two government ministries following the leak to social media of information concerning requests for housing by three Union ministers. → Read More
Background check for Yangon low-cost housing lottery winners
Lucky winners in a lottery for renting low-cost apartments in Yangon will have to undergo a background check before they are allowed to move in, officials said. → Read More
Govt signals crackdown on unauthorised occupants of state-owned apartments
Residents of government-owned apartment blocks could soon face eviction if they are found to be occupying their homes illegally, a housing official has warned. → Read More
Demand sky-high for Mahabandoola rental housing
Applications from would-be renters in Yangon’s newest public housing development have been flooding in, at a rate 30 times greater than the space available, officials say. → Read More
Bridge to connect Yangon with Southwest New City
Three companies recently awarded a contract to develop a large area of land in Southwest Yangon will begin the project by building a bridge across the Hlaing River from the new development to the city’s downtown area. → Read More
YCDC opens complaints section
The best in news from across Myanmar. → Read More
Upgrading Yangon’s ancient sewer system
In downtown Yangon between Mahabandoola and 47th streets, veiled behind a canopy of broad trees, is an unassuming brick building painted in red and yellow with grey window shutters. → Read More
Five-day water cut begins as part of JICA upgrade project
Upgrade to Yangon’s water pipeline network will see supply cut for five days to 11 wards in four inner-city townships, starting today. → Read More
Shwe Taung to complete underpass in six months
Myanmar's first pedestrian underpass will open in Yangon within the next six months, according to developer Shwe Taung. → Read More
Low-cost apartments in Yangon’s Yuzana Housing to go on sale
Apartments in a major low-cost housing development in Yangon’s Dagon Seikkan township will be sold to the public in the last week of March, with some units to be rented at subsidised prices, an official said yesterday. → Read More
Ministry surveys Dagon Seikkan land for rental housing
The Ministry of Construction is surveying land in Yangon’s Dagon Seikkan township near Yuzana Garden City housing complex, with a view to building the city’s largest rental housing project to date, an official told The Myanmar Times. → Read More
Hlaing Tharyar low-cost apartments to sell for K10 million
Apartments in a new residential project in Yangon’s Hlaing Tharyar township will go on sale for less than K10 million, making them the cheapest low-cost housing units built in the city to date, officials said. → Read More
Low-cost housing winners missing
Housing authorities have issued a call for 81 missing lottery winners who won the right to buy low-cost homes in Yangon’s Hlaing Tharyar township. → Read More
Ministries to hold power over BOT condominium sales
Foreign investors will be able to buy condominium units in build-operate-transfer (BOT) projects on ministry-owned land if the ministry is willing to register the project, officials said yesterday. → Read More
Zaykabar chair: Suu Kyi is ‘like a sister’
Myanmar's business times: business news from across the nation. → Read More
Shan State officials seek new route for China trade
Shan State officials say they are planning to conduct surveys for a new road that would divert traffic from one of Myanmar’s main trading routes and open up business with China. → Read More
Dry port discussions under way on China border
Two miles north of Muse, on Myanmar’s border with China, a company is negotiating with farmers to buy their land with a view to building a dry port. → Read More
High hopes for business zone on China-Myanmar border
An ambitious new economic zone at Myanmar’s largest trading point with China will bring new business opportunities for the two countries, officials and residents said at the project’s soft opening in Shan State’s Muse last week. → Read More
Earthquake awareness needed: experts
Take the small earthquake of January 12 as a wake-up call, engineers are warning Yangon authorities. The temblor, 4.8 on the Richter scale, scarcely troubled most city residents, though it did turn out the lights for some hour → Read More