Yangon will need around 75,000 new apartments to be built each year to accommodate the city’s growing population, but contractors are struggling to come anywhere close to this target. More than ...

At least 330,000 people move to Yangon every year from Mayanmar’s rural heartlands or its townships in the hope of finding work. The city’s population is expected to reach nearly 10m by 2035, almost ...

Urban growth, while offering opportunities for economic development and creation of more and better-paid jobs, also increases the pressure on the existing urban mobility systems and access of the ...