The above are two recent photographs of Naypyitaw from a government publication, sent by a reader. Roundabouts, low-rise buildings, wide traffic-free streets and artificial water traps… looking out the window at ANU somehow it all seems vaguely familiar…
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Same impression I had…
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As The Economist’s Banyan column put it, a city “whose eerily empty streets and subterranean parliament suggest a Pyongyang without the dystopia”. Oh, wait. They were talking about Canberra.
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…just needs the early morning cyclists
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Naypyidaw is where the multi-billion dollars of natural gas revenue has been wasted and the process is continuing. It’s been nicely enriching the generals and also many a Burmese businessmen like Tay Za and Htay Myint.
Unlike in the photos the grass there is extremely green though, especially after a heavy rain, according to my first cousin who is a lowly subbie to a big- subbie who got the sub-contract to fence the low rise buildings from another big-subbie.
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Legoland
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