Today, her face smiles on magazine covers sold in the streets of the capital, Yangon.
"Right now, Yangon is a colonial treasure with no parallel in Southeast Asia, " says Thant.
He was able to get to a small village about 1.5 hours from Yangon, though.
He is being represented by a lawyer selected by the U.S. Embassy in Yangon.
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The case is being tried behind closed doors inside a prison compound near Yangon.
Her car would have passed checkpoints leaving Yangon before reaching the spot where she was stopped.
Her trial is being held inside a prison compound in the city of Yangon.
Police block the entrance to her lakeside home in Yangon, formerly known as Rangoon.
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Rangoon is the former name of Yangon, Myanmar's largest city and its economic center.
Associated Press writer Aye Aye Win in Yangon and Jocelyn Gecker in Bangkok contributed to this report.
Naypyitaw, he paid tribute to former United Nations Secretary-General U Thant at a memorial in Yangon.
The potentially more antsy undergraduates have been relocated to two far-off campuses, about an hour from Yangon.
The same goes for Rangoon - people in general are more familiar with this name than Yangon.
"The destruction is unbelievable, " Dr. Kyi Minn of the Christian relief organization World Vision said from Yangon.
Ford has signed a deal with Burmese conglomerate Capital Diamond Star Group to open a showroom in Yangon.
The Yangon economist familiar with the change says not all of the reserves are at the central bank.
Outside of Yangon, the pace of Burmese society slows to a timeless pace -- as do Internet connections.
Last year it shifted Myanmar's capital from the port of Yangon to Naypyidaw, in a remote mountainous region.
The U.N. humanitarian office held emergency meetings in Yangon and Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine state, over the weekend.
The 46-year-old Thant Myint-U is the natural candidate to save Yangon's cosmopolitan past.
Both are now too enmeshed in Yangon politics to go their own ways.
The embassy official reported that Yeattaw is being kept in a Yangon jail and appeared to be doing well.
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He was born in a town north of Yangon to an ordinary family.
Standard Chartered has just reopened its representative office in Yangon, the commercial capital, after a gap of several years.
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But Yangon is also on the verge of a construction blitz, where its historic architecture could disappear like a mirage.
Importantly, the government has accepted a WFP plane to go into Yangon tomorrow with emergency food aid - high-energy biscuits.
With Myanmar inside the tent, free-trade policies will continue in Yangon, and gradually ASEAN's influence will start to kick in.
There was some evidence of the growth in Yangon, which is where the moneyed live and the country goes to shop.
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Under a U.S. license, GE is supplying medical equipments to private hospitals via a local distributor in Yangon, the largest city.
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