The decrepitude of the buildings in Rangoon is almost grand. From Wordnik.com. [Burma] Reference
Aung San Suu Kyi born in Rangoon, third child in family. From Wordnik.com. [Aung San Suu Kyi - Biography] Reference
The Junta has changed the names of places: Rangoon is now Yangon. From Wordnik.com. [A Letter from Alice Walker to Aung San Suu Kyi] Reference
By the time we arrived in Rangoon, they were already in Mandalay. From Wordnik.com. [A Letter from Alice Walker to Aung San Suu Kyi] Reference
At five thirty one morning in Rangoon, I dozed in the hot, dark compartment of. From Wordnik.com. [Burma] Reference
Whoever rules in Rangoon will have access to great wealth, power, and influence. From Wordnik.com. [Burma’s Next Chapter] Reference
Pagoda in Rangoon, presenting a political program based on human rights, democracy and non-violence. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Peace Prize 1991 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Two weeks ago my partner, Garrett Larson, and I were in Rangoon, on your street, and passed by your gate. From Wordnik.com. [A Letter from Alice Walker to Aung San Suu Kyi] Reference
In 1996, he met the Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon, while she was briefly not under house arrest. From Wordnik.com. [Lifting the Bamboo Curtain] Reference
On every landing there is a temple, a soft-drink stall ( "Dagon Pure Orange — Bottled in Rangoon With Distilled Water"), and. From Wordnik.com. [Burma] Reference
On annual visit to grandmother in Rangoon, Alexander and Kim take part in traditional Buddhist ceremony of initiation into monkhood. From Wordnik.com. [Aung San Suu Kyi - Biography] Reference
There is only one college, at Rangoon, which is affiliated to the Calcutta University. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
It's the capital city, otherwise known as Rangoon before the military took over there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 28, 2007] Reference
The lowliest person at the American Embassy has a car and a driver — officially, Rangoon is "a hardship post."). From Wordnik.com. [Burma] Reference
It carries rice, teak logs and other goods from the nation's heartlands to Yangon, formerly called Rangoon, for export. From Wordnik.com. [Current Events] Reference
Oct. 10 Renamed Vittoria, the Tenyu turns up in Rangoon. From Wordnik.com. [Where Pirates Still Sail] Reference
The U.S. Embassy in Rangoon has helped Burma's artists. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Defiance] Reference
No one will mess with Lo Hsing Han, '' says a Rangoon diplomat. From Wordnik.com. [Burma's Men Of Gold] Reference
Even the wild Wa tribe is looking for business deals in Rangoon. From Wordnik.com. [Burma's Men Of Gold] Reference
"" Even the Burmese Army were stunned, '' says a Rangoon diplomat. From Wordnik.com. [Burma's Men Of Gold] Reference
NEWSWEEK: How would you describe the atmosphere in Rangoon at the moment?. From Wordnik.com. [‘Pretty Tense’] Reference
"Who is suffering from the boycott?" asks one foreign health worker in Rangoon. From Wordnik.com. [Too Good To Be True] Reference
The only propaganda battle Rangoon refuses to fight is against retired warlords. From Wordnik.com. [Burma's Men Of Gold] Reference
One day, perhaps, a free Rangoon will have its own Monument to the Unknown Blogger. From Wordnik.com. [Outside Voices] Reference
The family is involved in a bus line and a road project connecting Rangoon with Mandalay. From Wordnik.com. [Burma's Men Of Gold] Reference
"" Opium is the only growth area left in the economy, '' says a Western diplomat in Rangoon. From Wordnik.com. [Burma's Men Of Gold] Reference
"We only want more of you to come," says one English-language student in the capital, Rangoon. From Wordnik.com. [Too Good To Be True] Reference
And that prudence is very much in evidence as events unfold in Rangoon, the country's main city. From Wordnik.com. [Staying Out of Trouble] Reference
Last winter, Villarosa hosted a hip-hop show on the grounds of her private residence in Rangoon. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Defiance] Reference
For centuries, Buddhist monks have been ubiquitous in Rangoon, Mandalay and other Burmese cities. From Wordnik.com. [The Silence of the Monks] Reference
No one mentions the democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, who languishes under house arrest in Rangoon. From Wordnik.com. [Staying Out of Trouble] Reference
Today, few monks can be found around the Shwedagon and Sule Pagodas, the main Rangoon protest sites. From Wordnik.com. [The Silence of the Monks] Reference
"What has happened to all the monks?" asks Shari Villarosa, charge d'affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Rangoon. From Wordnik.com. [The Silence of the Monks] Reference
Monks in Rangoon say they are being kept in line by the paranoid regime's seemingly inexhaustible army of snitches. From Wordnik.com. [The Silence of the Monks] Reference
For better for worse, the urbanites and more specifically, the children of the elite in Rangoon, will be calling the shots. From Wordnik.com. [Techno Revolution?] Reference
That was brought home to me by one of my recent phone conversations with a prodemocracy activist in Rangoon, Burma's biggest city. From Wordnik.com. [Outside Voices] Reference
It is often hard to tell who is up and who down in Rangoon, a city of palpable intrigue ruled by an Orwellian military government. From Wordnik.com. [Burma's Men Of Gold] Reference
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