Yangon
Yangon's traffic © Sam Whelan

Despite the heavy pollution coughed out of the exhausts of crawling city-centre traffic, a fresh sense of optimism in the air in Yangon, Myanmar’s former capital and commercial hub, is unmistakeable.

The country’s first civilian government was sworn in last week, following November’s elections when ex-political prisoner ...

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