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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.
The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng (Vietnamese: [vìət naːm kwə́wk zən ɗa᷉ːŋ]; chữ Hán: 越南國民黨; lit. ' Vietnamese Nationalist Party ' or ' Vietnamese National Party '), abbreviated VNQDĐ or Việt Quốc, was a nationalist and democratic socialist political party that sought independence from French colonial rule in Vietnam during the early 20th century. [4]
Luong's father, Luong Xuan Duong (d. 1997), [2] was a Major (Thiếu tá) in the Republic of Vietnam Marine Division.On 29 April 1975 he and his family were evacuated from Tan Son Nhat International Airport during Operation Frequent Wind, landing on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Hancock.
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 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).
[19] [18] There, he and King An Duong's daughter, Mỵ Châu, fell in love and were married. [18] [20] A vestige of the matrilocal organization required the husband to live in the residence of his wife's family. [21] As a result, they resided at An Duong's court until Zhong Shi discovered the secrets and strategies of King An Dương. [21]
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]