Mosques and other Muslim buildings have been attacked by crowds of Buddhists in towns on the road from Rangoon to Pyay, about 200km (125 miles) to the north.
With its prime location on Sule Pagoda Road, the most expensive street in Rangoon, Sakura Tower is the oldest and among the highest-priced office blocks in the city.
In the bad new days of the generals' road to capitalism, Burma is Myanmar, Rangoon is Yangon, and the Working People's Daily has been reborn as the New Light of Myanmar (just as boring but now also the world's nastiest newspaper).