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The Yangon City Heritage List is a list of man-made landmarks in Yangon, Myanmar, so designated by the city government, Yangon City Development Committee. [1] The list consists of 188 structures (as of 2001), and is largely made up of mostly religious structures and British colonial-era buildings.
The city hall occupies the former site of the Ripon Hall. [2] The city hall has been the focal point of several major political demonstrations, including a 1964 People's Peace Committee rally supported by Thakin Kodaw Hmaing, which attracted 200,000 people and was subsequently clamped down by Ne Win's military junta.
In October 2019, YCDC courted controversy from the Yangon Region Hluttaw over the purchase of 80 vehicles at a cost of US$1.37 million for city officials. [19] YCDC sits on the board of directors of the New Yangon City Development Company, which is the developer of a controversial development project, the Yangon New City Project. [20]
The first was the need to both cultivate and to curtail the heavy presence of commercial business activity controlled by Hoa in the South, especially in Ho Chi Minh City, as Chinese-owned businesses controlled much of the city's commercial activity and the Southern Vietnamese economy in general.
The project has been criticised lack of transparency. In August 2014, Yangon Chief Minister Myint Swe (general), launched a project to develop a US$8 billion, 30,000-acre new city west of Yangon. [8] The project was controversially awarded to an unknown firm, Myanmar Saytanar Myothit Public Company, without a public tender. [9]
The provinces of Vietnam are subdivided into second-level administrative units, namely districts (Vietnamese: huyện), provincial cities (thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh), and district-level towns (thị xã).
These writings, perhaps the most widely recognized of Phan's works, include: Việt Nam vong quốc sử (History of the Loss of Vietnam), Tân Việt Nam (The new Vietnam; 1907), Ai Việt điếu Điền (Grief over Vietnam and Condolence for Yunnan; 1907), Hải ngoại Huyết thư (Letter Inscribed in Blood from Abroad; 1907), Việt Nam ...
Nguyễn Thị Hiền Thục (born 13 May 1981), stage name Hien Thuc, is a contemporary Vietnamese pop singer. [1] She took a break from her music career to start a family from 2002 to 2004. She is known to have diversity styles which is mostly pop as well as being famous for several ballad songs.