Uneven development stifling Myanmar

Uneven development stifling Myanmar Global Times | 2013-12-19 By Marie Lall

Anyone arriving today at Mingaladon Airport and driving toward the center of Yangon would find it hard to imagine that just a few years ago Myanmar was an isolated country – poor, underdeveloped and labeled by the US as an “outpost of tyranny.”

At the start of the 21st century there were few cars on the roads. Taxis at that time used to be over a decade old, often with sagging seats and doors that did not shut properly. As things started to change around 2005, there were more cars and the first few mobile phones had made an appearance.

I missed my happy childhood, playing Burmese traditional games in Meikhtila, at the age of 7-10 yr

I missed my happy childhood, playing Burmese traditional games in Meikhtila, at the age of 7-10 yr. My mother’s cousin Ma Nwe’ was staying with us. I used to help her washing dishes, even cleaning the bottom of the dark pots with the rough gr sand-soap powder, so that she could join us to play games with the children and teenagers from our Dahattan Quarters. I remember the daughters of Contractor U khin Maung who were like cousin sisters to my mother, playing together with us.