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  • noun a port city of southern Myanmar on the Gulf of Martaban

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Examples

  • Dutch postal and express company TNT NV sent a convoy of 22 trucks loaded with rice, eggs, bottled water and other supplies to the city of Mawlamyine in southeastern Myanmar from Bangkok.

    Delivery Firms Help in Myanmar and China 2008

  • Dutch postal and express company TNT NV sent a convoy of 22 trucks loaded with rice, eggs, bottled water and other supplies to the city of Mawlamyine in southeastern Myanmar from Bangkok late last month.

    Express-Delivery Firms Share 2008

  • The one internet shop that I was aware of in Mawlamyine had no connection on Friday or Saturday, but whether this was due to the storm or simply to the poor state of communications infrastructure in the country was unclear.

    Help Us Report on the Cyclone in Myanmar - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • There was more rain in Bago, and in Mawlamyine, about 100 miles southeast of Yangon, there was heavy rain and very high winds, but nothing that seemed dangerous.

    Help Us Report on the Cyclone in Myanmar - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Further north, large tracts of forest have been cut, including the gorges of the Thanlwin (Salween) River where it enters the Andaman Sea at Mawlamyine, an area that once harbored many local or endemic species of orchids, begonias, and other herbs.

    Myanmar coastal rain forests 2008

  • Thursday I traveled to Bago and Friday to Mawlamyine, Myanmar’s third largest city.

    Help Us Report on the Cyclone in Myanmar - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Without any access to English-language news I was utterly unaware of the extent of the storm’s damage until Sunday when I took a bus from Mawlamyine back to Bago and then another bus to Nyaungshwe in East-Central Myanmar.

    Help Us Report on the Cyclone in Myanmar - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Charles Bo of Yangon and Paul Grawng of Mandalay, Bishop Raymond Saw Po Ray of Mawlamyine and retired Bishop Joseph Mahn Eri of Pathein.

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • Grawng of Mandalay, Bishop Raymond Saw Po Ray of Mawlamyine and retired Bishop Joseph Mahn Eri of Pathein.

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • Charles Bo of Yangon and Paul Grawng of Mandalay, Bishop Raymond Saw Po Ray of Mawlamyine and retired Bishop Joseph Mahn Eri of Pathein.

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

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