Short hop: People from Dala township arriving in Yangon after crossing the Yangon River. — AFP
Yangon: On the scruffy, downtrodden bank of the river, teashop-owner Khin Than Myint works just a few hundred metres across the muddy water from Yangon and dreams of the riches promised by a new bridge linking to Myanmar’s commercial heart.
“The quicker, the better,” 58-year-old Khin said of the construction of the US$168mil (RM701mil) bridge, from her shop in Dala township.
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