Rangoon is the former name of Yangon, Myanmar's largest city and its economic center.

CNN: Bloggers describe 'sad moment' for Myanmar

One Muslim shopkeeper in northern Yangon, Myanmar's largest city, says his sales have fallen by two-thirds since a video of Wirathu preaching began circulating a month and a half ago.

NPR: PORTRAITS: New Numerology Of Hate Grows In Myanmar

But in the teashops of Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city, the talk two decades on is not of sanctions but of the need for dialogue, of frustration with the main opposition party, the National League for Democracy, and even with its detained leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and of the widening gap between those who oppose the junta from abroad and those who live under its thumb.

ECONOMIST: Hopes for change have yielded to despair

Pannasiha, a monk who goes by one name and teaches at a prestigious Buddhist academy in Yangon, says Myanmar cannot thrive as a collection of separate communities living side by side.

NPR: PORTRAITS: New Numerology Of Hate Grows In Myanmar

Of the 7 tons of biscuits, four tons were dispatched to Labutta in the delta, and the rest were to be distributed Friday by Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Yangon area, Chris Kaye, WFP director in Myanmar, said in a written statement.

CNN: Limited cyclone aid begins moving

Last year it shifted Myanmar's capital from the port of Yangon to Naypyidaw, in a remote mountainous region.

ECONOMIST: Myanmar

With Myanmar inside the tent, free-trade policies will continue in Yangon, and gradually ASEAN's influence will start to kick in.

CNN: AND THEN THERE WERE TEN