NEWS - Myanmar to Build Yangon into

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Subject: NEWS - Myanmar to Build Yangon into Modern City (AT WHO'S EXPENSE)

NOTE: How many people will be forcibly relocated and arrested for this. 
Modern international city styles are not a solution, it will ruin
Rangoon's landscape and views.  Also what ever happened to that law in
Burma about building tall buildings near the shrines, which has already
been violated by international hoteliers??
  THE BEST WAY TO IMPROVE THE STANDARD OF LIVING IS TO REMOVE THE
MILITARY SPDC/ SLORC GOVERNMENT!

Myanmar to Build Yangon into Modern City

               Xinhua
               01-JUL-99

               YANGON (July 1) XINHUA - Myanmar leader
               Lieutenant-General Khin Nyunt Wednesday called for
efforts
               to build Yangon, the capital city, into a modern city of
               international standard and improve the living standard,
               welfare and socioeconomic life of the city's residents. 

               Meeting with officials of the Yangon City Development
               Committee here Wednesday, Khin Nyunt, first secretary of
               the Myanmar State Peace and Development Council,
               recalled that Yangon city was full of wards, squatter
quarters
               and slums when the government took power in 1988, saying
               Yangon was neither beautiful nor hygienic and the living
               standard was also very low. 

               He pointed out that the city has developed due to the
               establishment of new towns, the hut-to-apartment scheme
               and the improvement of the standard of living,
construction
               of modern housing projects and low-cost ones for
               low-income people. 

               He disclosed that the city's tax revenue increased from
1.343
               billion kyats (4.47 million U.S. dollars) in 1991-92 to
8.379
               billion kyats (27.9 million dollars) in 1998-99 and is to
further
               rise to 9 billion kyats (30 million dollars) for the
current fiscal
               year. 

               He urged officials to boost revenues while ensuring that
tax
               collection would not pose a burden to the public.