What Can You Buy At The Traffic Lights!

[simon43]

In Thailand the kids sell flowers at the traffic lights...

As I found out yesterday when in a taxi in central Yangon, the kids sell copies of the official English translation of the Foreign Business Law and Labour Law!!

Simon

[tombkk]

Wow! Now that's different from khanom and flowers!

[manhattan55]

I have heard that the kids are actually selling translations of the old investment law. But this is info that is a few weeks old. In the meantime, the Myanmar government has issued an official English translation.

[tombkk]

No surprise. As the saying goes: If you get the latest information from Nay Pyi Daw, it will be outdated by the time you arrive back in Yangon.

[SeaVisionBurma]

Definitely an odd one for the street sellers.Simon. I love finding quirky things like that around Yangon.

The lower quarter of Pansodan (around Merchant St) has a lot of used books being sold along the sidewalk, all laid out on the ground. Have seen some interesting and bizarre books for sale there, some decades old.

[householder]

Definitely an odd one for the street sellers.Simon. I love finding quirky things like that around Yangon.

The lower quarter of Pansodan (around Merchant St) has a lot of used books being sold along the sidewalk, all laid out on the ground. Have seen some interesting and bizarre books for sale there, some decades old.

That ranks in my top 3, along with fan blades/generally stripped electronic components on 28th Street (along Anawrahta) and second-hand air-conditioning/TV remote controls by the display case that are sold around the place! Oh and the guys who carry cages of birds on their backs all day.

The one thing that annoys me most are the pigeon feeders - it's preferable to cross than road than to walk amongst (or worse, under) the huge flocks they attract.

[BookMan]

Is it a good read OP?

[householder]

Read it - devil will be in the regulations, when they're published.

[SeaVisionBurma]

That ranks in my top 3, along with fan blades/generally stripped electronic components on 28th Street (along Anawrahta) and second-hand air-conditioning/TV remote controls by the display case that are sold around the place! Oh and the guys who carry cages of birds on their backs all day.

The one thing that annoys me most are the pigeon feeders - it's preferable to cross than road than to walk amongst (or worse, under) the huge flocks they attract.

That electric/electronic street market is awesome.

So many bizarre old gadgets, tools, and components there.

Yeah, not a fan of the pigeon wranglers. Bunch of them on the South side of Merchant just near the Bo Aung Kyaw corner. I always cross the street to go around them too

[householder]

That ranks in my top 3, along with fan blades/generally stripped electronic components on 28th Street (along Anawrahta) and second-hand air-conditioning/TV remote controls by the display case that are sold around the place! Oh and the guys who carry cages of birds on their backs all day.

The one thing that annoys me most are the pigeon feeders - it's preferable to cross than road than to walk amongst (or worse, under) the huge flocks they attract.

That electric/electronic street market is awesome.

So many bizarre old gadgets, tools, and components there.

Yeah, not a fan of the pigeon wranglers. Bunch of them on the South side of Merchant just near the Bo Aung Kyaw corner. I always cross the street to go around them too

Someone made the mistake of parking their car next to one in my township. Suffice it to say they wouldn't have been very happy when they returned to it. Never was a fan of pigeons anyway. You're on the other side of town to me by the sounds of it - I don't go as far down as Merchant unless I really have to.

[householder]

Would be curious to find out what other weird and wonderful things people have seen being sold. I've seen roadside stalls selling car components off what looks like an oversized coat hanger. There's a place outside the laughable 'Drugs Elimination Museum' that sells exhaust pipes, for example - they even appear to have some sort of makeshift service area on the dirt.

[uptheos]

Definitely an odd one for the street sellers.Simon. I love finding quirky things like that around Yangon.

The lower quarter of Pansodan (around Merchant St) has a lot of used books being sold along the sidewalk, all laid out on the ground. Have seen some interesting and bizarre books for sale there, some decades old.

Years ago I saw a really beaten up copy of George Orwell's Burmese Days around that area - the seller asked $6 US!! (around 8,000 Kyat)

I satisfied myself with the totally unbiased New Light of Myanmar.

[simon43]

Is it a good read OP?

Yes it makes great bedtime reading....

I've got no plans to do any 'serious' business in Myanmar yet - I need to save up/print up some cash before I can build a little hotel over here. In any case, my business ideas would not be focused on Yangon. I'm here for 2 reasons:

1 - Get my amateur radio licence

2 - Do some philanthropic projects

#2 is going great...

#1 is still at the starting gate

Simon