Rangoon Expansion Plan Clouded by Company’s Shady Past

A man rides his bike at Kanhla village, an area to be included in the New City Project, outside Rangoon, on Aug. 30, 2014. (Photo: Reuters / Soe Zeya Tun)

RANGOON — Old habits die hard, especially in Burma.

With the recent revelation that Rangoon Division’s chief minister secretly awarded a multi-billion dollar development project in the former capital to a little-known company, it seems clear that Burma hasn’t yet shaken off the chronic nepotism that its former military rulers embraced for decades.

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