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Cyclone Nargis emerged in the Bay of Bengal in late April and tracked across the low-lying delta of the Irrawaddy (Ayeyarwady) River on May 2–3, passing just north of the old capital of Rangoon before dissipating in the vicinity of the Burma-Thailand border.
Oct 21, 2015 · The most significant events for Myanmar in the year 2008 were the devastating tropical Cyclone Nargis that wreaked havoc in the former capital Yangon and the Ayeyarwady Delta and the constitutional referendum that was conducted soon after the disaster.
Jan 31, 2022 · In 1989, the new military regime changed the country’s name from the Union of Burma to the Union of Myanmar, and the capital, Rangoon, was renamed Yangon.
- Lindsay Maizland
Coming from a more affluent family, the Yangon-born and bred 25-year-old says she was largely shielded from what was happening outside. But even as a child, some things stood out.
Apr 30, 2009 · The winds and tidal surge caused by the cyclone damaged much of the fertile Ayeyarwady delta, and Yangon, the nation's main city and former capital.
Many of them spent up to two decades in prison, where deprivation and ill-treatment robbed them of their health, but not their fighting spirit. Some have even been out in today's protests....
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