On This Day | When Yangon?s Avenues Traded Colonial English Names for Burmese irrawaddy.com

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myanmorenews myanmorenews 3 years ago in Lifestyle 0

On this day in 1989, the then-military government changed the names of 165 streets in Yangon, dropping their English colonial names in favor of Burmese language replacements.

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