Yoma Strategic Holdings Ltd. announced that it has entered into a sale and purchase agreement with Serge Pun & Associates Limited to acquire rights to participate in the development of around 10 acres ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Downtown Yangon is a perfect grid. Built by the British in the ...

1. Downtown Yangon is an architectural time warp(AFP/Getty Images)Yangon is often described as stuck in time. After 120 years of British occupation ended after World War II, the once-prosperous ...

Sule Pagoda sits in a golden aura at the end of Sule Pagoda Road in downtown Yangon, known by the British as Rangoon. The road also runs past my hotel, the Shangri-La Sule. I arrived in Myanmar (Burma ...

It’s fair to say the Balthazar Building in central Yangon has seen better days. The rails are rusted, the Italian marble floors are cracked and the birdcage elevator hasn’t worked in more than 40 ...

YANGON, Myanmar—The Premier coffee shop on Bogyoke Aung San Road, a wide boulevard marking the northern limit of this city's downtown, used to spread out plastic tables and chairs beneath a row of ...

Over cappuccino at a crowded conference on real estate in one of the world's last frontier markets, one investor turned to another and said breezily, "I'm here to get rich." They had paid more than $2 ...

Decades of socialism and military rule kept Myanmar — or Burma, as it was known — poor and isolated. There was one upside, though. The economy was so lousy, there was no drive to demolish the big ...

Downtown Yangon’s vibrancy owes much to its mass of street vendors. People in stalls, with carts, or on the ground sell everything from newspapers to fish to betel leaves to shoes. Such businesses are ...

YANGON, Myanmar—When Barack Obama visits Myanmar for a security conference today, he is unlikely to notice the vacant lot at 233-235 Upper Pansodan Street, in the heart of Yangon's chaotic downtown.