Naypyidaw

It did continue the massively expensive construction of a closed-off capital city for the government and its workers called Naypyidaw, complete with a zoo and climate-controlled penguin tank.

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Most of the ministries are about a 12-hour drive north of where we are in a new city called Naypyidaw, Yangon is no longer capital city of Myanmar, formerly Burma.

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On Sunday, November 6, 2005 civil servants and government officials were ordered to move immediately from Rangoon to a new capital, Nay Pyi Taw (also known as Naypyidaw), 200 miles north.

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Aung San Suu Kyi stayed in the administrative capital of Naypyidaw overnight and attended a government-sponsored economic development forum Saturday morning.

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But when, during the first visit of a British foreign secretary for 56 years, William Hague flew last week from the new capital of Naypyidaw down to Rangoon, he would have passed over thousands of settlements like it.

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Naypyidaw, with its 12-lane highways and monumental architecture, has been carved out of scrub and farmland as a monument to the power of the autocratic and secretive military clique that has ruled Burma for decades – a power that now appears to be waning, or at least evolving.

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Hague is due to fly into the capital, Naypyidaw, to meet the Burmese leadership, including the new president, Thein Sein.

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Then, according to the report, he will head off to "the secretive, new capital Naypyidaw, where he will meet the president-elect Thein Sein as well as the football-mad military supremo, Than Shwe".

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Change is coming to Burma, or at least that's the message coming out of Naypyidaw.

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We hear Myanmar can disappear a body with the best of them, but try finding a KFC in downtown Naypyidaw, y'know?

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