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Myanmar’s largest city has been rocked by cholera in recent months – but the regime has largely covered up the outbreak by avoiding naming the disease and including confirmed cases in its tallies of acute watery diarrhoea.
There’s only one road to the capital of the remote Naga Self-Administered Zone, where transport costs impose a heavy burden on residents of one of the country’s poorest and least-developed areas.
As the market cools for condominiums, office space and hotel rooms, industrial land is shaping up as the next big thing – but for foreign buyers it’s a complex market that needs to be treated with caution.

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