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		Pyinmana Naypyidaw ist seit November 2005 die Hauptstadt von Myanmar.
		Strategische Bedeutung erhält die Stadt einerseits durch ihre zentrale Lage und anderseits dadurch, dass sie nahe den Grenzen mehrerer von großen Minderheiten (Shan, Chin und Karen) bewohnten Teilstaaten liegt, die sich teils schon seit langem in Konflikt mit der herrschenden Militärdiktatur befinden.
		Als Grund gab er an, Pyinmana sei durch seine zentrale Lage besser geeignet, da die Stadt aus allen Landesteilen leicht zu erreichen sei.
	www.radiosaw.de /start.php?wikipedia,wiki/Pyinmana (396 words)

	Pyinmana - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The administrative capital of Myanmar was officially moved to a militarised greenfield site (which the leader, Than Shwe, dubbed Naypyidaw, or Royal City) two miles west of Pyinmana on November 6, 2005.
		Pyinmana is approximately 320 kilometres north of Yangon.
		The village of Yezin, a few miles north and east of Pyinmana, has been the site of national scientific research institutions since the late 1970s.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Pyinmana (121 words)

	Pyinmana \| Urdu \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		Pyinmana (Burmese: ; population: 100,000 (2006 estimate)) is a logging town and sugar cane refinery center in Mandalay Division of Myanmar.
		Pyinmana est une ville d'environ 100 000 habitants (2006) à proximité de laquelle s'installe la nouvelle capitale de la Birmanie (ou Myanmar), dans le district de Mandalay, à 320 km au nord de Rangoon, sur un affluent du fleuve Sittang.
		Pyinmana (Burmees:) is een stad in Myanmar, die zich bevindt ten noorden van Rangoon en ten zuiden van Mandalay in het zuiden van de divisie Mandalay.
	www.babylon.com /definition/Pyinmana/Urdu (364 words)

	Pyinmana - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Pyinmana is located on Yangon-Mandalay railroad in a mountainous, forested region.
		The forces of nationalist leader Aung San were based in Pyinmana during World War II, and the area was later a Communist insurgent stronghold.
		In late 2005 Myanmar's military government announced that the capital would be moved from Yangon to an extensive compound outside the town, and began transferring several government ministries to the new administrative capital, which was named Naypyidaw in 2006.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Pyinmana.html (334 words)

	Government relocates to Pyinmana - 2Bangkok.com Forum
		Pyinmana served as the military headquarters of Burma’s resistance movement, led by independence hero Gen Aung San, during the country’s Japanese occupation in World War II.
		Pyinmana is going to be the capital of this built-in mini state where real decisions will be made, or projected to be made.
		Construction at Pyinmana, believed to cost hundreds of millions of dollars, began over two and a half years ago in an area of about 400 square miles, and it is still incomplete.
	www.angkor.com /2bangkok/2bangkok/forum/showthread.php?t=1273 (3888 words)

	March 28
		PYINMANA - SOME 13,000 troops marched through Myanmar's new administrative capital Pyinmana yesterday as its ruling junta struck a defiant note against critics of its iron-fisted rule.
		PYINMANA - LIVES were turned upside down - some for the better, some for the worse - when Myanmar's military rulers announced abruptly in November that this once sleepy provincial town was to become the country's capital.
		Until now, Pyinmana has been a small rural town clustered around sugar mills and a railway lumber yard on the country's main rail line, halfway between Yangon and Mandalay, the last independent Burmese kingdom's capital before Britain seized the country in 1885.
	www.mingalaronline.net /story/pyinmana_2006_arm_force_day.htm (1921 words)

	Pyinmana
		Pyinmana was the base of the Burma Independence Army (later renamed and reorganized into the Burma National Army by the Japanese.) It was in Pyinmana that the army and its officers were trained.
		Later the BNA changed sides, aiding the allies with guerilla warfare, and the operations were seen as a victory by the Burmese.
		Pyinmana became an icon in the Burmese Army, as the place where 'superior invaders' were defeated by the Burmese.
	www.1bx.com /en/Pyinmana.htm (218 words)

	International Institute for Strategic Studies - Mar 24th - - Straits Times - Burma's new capital: a bunker too far?
		Until now, Pyinmana has been a small rural town clustered around sugar mills and a railway lumber yard on the country's main rail line, halfway between Rangoon and Mandalay, the last independent Burmese kingdom's capital before Britain seized the country in 1885.
		The new capital is said at the moment to be largely a construction site, with new buildings, military barracks, government offices and homes for civil servants rising on 10 square kilometres of cleared land to the west of the existing town.
		Needless to say, the relocation to Pyinmana already worries foreign diplomats, for whom Rangoon is already quite enough of a hardship post.
	www.iiss.org /whats-new/iiss-in-the-press/press-coverage-2006/march-2006/burmas-new-capital-a-bunker-too-far (1031 words)

	BurmaNet 2: [burmanet2-l] Is junta planning to abandon Rangoon? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Pyinmana, a former stronghold of communist insurgents, is in central = Burma and within easy reach of frontier Shan, Kayah, Chin and Karen = states.
		With Pyinmana as their headquarters, the generals would be able quickly = to deal with areas where ethnic minority insurgents could cause trouble.
		Pyinmana, a former stronghold of communist=20 insurgents, is in central Burma and within easy reach of frontier Shan, = Kayah,=20 Chin and Karen states.
	www.yuyu.net /burmanet2-l/archive/0901.html (2504 words)

	Bangkok Post Breaking News
		Pyinmana is situated 320 kilometres north of Yangon.
		It is widely rumoured in Yangon that Myanmar's military regime has relocated the capital to Pyinmana for security reasons, being fearful of a U.S. seaborne invasion similar to that of Iraq.
		Pyinmana, a former stronghold of communist insurgents, is also closer to the various ethnic minority groups such as the Kachin, Karen, and Shans who have waged separatist insurgencies against the central government for decades.
	www.bangkokpost.com /breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=60368 (301 words)

	Metro > Print (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Hij besloot in november de hoofdstad naar het 350 kilometer ten noorden van Rangoon gelegen Pyinmana te verhuizen omdat die provincieplaats centraler ligt.
		Pyinmana is nog volstrekt niet berekend op de plotselinge toestroom van naar schatting 50.000 ambtenaren en militairen die er de afgelopen maanden al zijn neergestreken.
		Ook de water- en stroomvoorziening zijn nog lang niet in staat van Pyinmana het Parijs van Birma (Myanmar) te maken.
	www.metronieuws.nl /index.php?actie=print&c=1&id=50115 (163 words)

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		Pyinmana, a former stronghold of communist insurgents, is in central Burma and within easy reach of frontier Shan, Kayah, Chin and Karen states.
		With Pyinmana as their headquarters, the generals would be able quickly to deal with areas where ethnic minority insurgents could cause trouble.
		Pyinmana was the site of the military headquarters of Burma' s independence hero Gen Aung San during the Japanese occupation in World War Two.
	my.reset.jp /~adachihayao/050606K.htm (1130 words)

	The China Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Pyinmana is expected to be officially declared the new capital sometime after the move is completed, but it is not clear when.
		We will have to be patient because it will take time for the government staff to get settled in their new place," said a representative of an international aid agency that deals with the Health Ministry.
		The junta quietly began building the new capital more than three years ago, constructing a prime minister's residence, an airport, hospital, a golf course, hotels and buildings for each ministry, along with a separate complex that houses military headquarters and bunkers.
	www.chinapost.com.tw /p_detail.asp?id=76403&GRP=C&onNews= (453 words)

	Irrawaddy.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		New air, rail and bus routes linking Rangoon with Burma’s new administrative capital, Pyinmana, are now in operation, according to local sources.
		Privately-owned Air Bagan made its first flight between the capital and Pyinmana’s Ela airport on Wednesday, said an airline official, who also confirmed that the company is planning to operate three weekly flights between the cities, using a 46-seater ATR-42 carrier and a 68-seater ATR-32.
		Pyinmana has become increasingly crowded since the government’s decision to relocate key ministries there last November, and the new links have been established to help combat existing transport inadequacies.
	www.irrawaddy.org /aviewer.asp?a=5514&print=yes&c=e (246 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Southeast Asia news and business from Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam
		BANGKOK - Myanmar's new capital at Pyinmana by all accounts is up and running despite officials unhappy with the strange move into the country's central hills.
		Ironically, Pyinmana served as the hideout from where Aung San, father of incarcerated, pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, led a resistance movement against the Japanese Army, which occupied Myanmar during World War II.
		For months, Yangon had been rife with rumors that the country's military rulers were planning to retreat to the hills because of fears of a foreign invasion from the sea.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/GK23Ae01.html (1046 words)

	Burmanet » Mizzima News: Pyinmana: Living with fear - Nyo Ohn Myint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The regime moved the National Convention to a remote area 30 kilometres from Rangoon showing, coupled with the Pyinmana move, the government is not ready to face unrest.
		The move to Pyinmana seemed to signal that the military was also unsatisfied with the way things were working out.
		An official who was ordered to move to Pyinmana said, “There could be more silent confrontation by the officials and how long regime uses this curtail treatment on them or how long they could tolerate wartime condition”.
	www.burmanet.org /news/2005/12/08/mizzima-news-pyinmana-living-with-fear-nyo-ohn-myint (544 words)

	Market Values in Pyinmana: ThingsAsian
		Pyinmana marks the halfway point - the cursory left-hand turnoff an inadequate acknowledgment to the existence of this little town.
		A little further from the environs of Pyinmana, as the land begins to roll and rise, strings of bamboo houses tie themselves loosely to lush green hillsides.
		A raucous laugh reveals a flash of silver teeth proving that in Pyinmana it really does pay to put your money where your mouth is. As barrow boys raise a sweat wheeling around wooden barrels of cool drinking water others seek the welcome shade cast by groves of oversized umbrellas.
	www.thingsasian.com /stories-photos/20303/1086340/6/brt0_unknown (1246 words)

	Abrupt relocation of Burma capital linked to astrology - The Boston Globe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Burmese officials have said Pyinmana provides a more central location as the military government tries to consolidate its hold on northern border areas dominated by ethnic groups.
		Some suspect that the decision to move the capital from the coastal city of Rangoon also was prompted by Than Shwe's desire to isolate the government and protect it from possible threats, such as a popular uprising or a US invasion.
		Western officials say that planning for the capital's move to Pyinmana began five or six years ago and construction of new offices, residences, and roads has been underway for many months.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2006/01/01/abrupt_relocation_of_burma_capital_linked_to_astrology (991 words)

	The implications of the junta's Pyinmana move and
		Official confirmation of the Burmese government's shift to Pyinmana in Mandalay division is still fresh and most political analysts and Burma watchers admit they are not completely sure what effect the move will have on the military's grip on power.
		The relocation will take several government departments almost 250 miles from the capital Rangoon and while it is unclear whether the shift represents a retreat or a consolidation of power it is clear the distance will drive a further wedge between the junta, opposition groups and Rangoon's media.
		At most the move to Pyinmana gives the government the chance to retreat, regroup and create a new and more secure environment for themselves and their cronies according to Aung Naing Oo.
	www.mizzima.com /mizzima/archives/news-in-2005/News-in-Nov/04-Nov-05-11.htm (834 words)

	The implications of the junta's Pyinmana move and
		Official confirmation of the Burmese government's shift to Pyinmana in Mandalay division is still fresh and most political analysts and Burma watchers admit they are not completely sure what effect the move will have on the military's grip on power.
		The relocation will take several government departments almost 250 miles from the capital Rangoon and while it is unclear whether the shift represents a retreat or a consolidation of power it is clear the distance will drive a further wedge between the junta, opposition groups and Rangoon's media.
		At most the move to Pyinmana gives the government the chance to retreat, regroup and create a new and more secure environment for themselves and their cronies according to Aung Naing Oo.
	mizzima.com /mizzima/archives/news-in-2005/News-in-Nov/04-Nov-05-11.htm (834 words)

	Bangkok Post Breaking News
		The new trains will run on the existing route between Rangoon and Mandalay that passes through the town of Pyinmana, which is about 20 kilometres from where the new capital is still under construction.
		Although the upgraded service was launched Monday, it has been reported Pyinmana will be closed to foreigners until the middle of next year, and foreign embassies will not start moving there until 2007 or 2008 at the earliest.
		Burma watchers have suggested the primary reason for the move is that Pyinmana, which is next to mountains and a large military base, would be easier for the military to defend.
	www.bangkokpost.com /breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=70026 (263 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Asia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		There are said to be no proper primary schools in Pyinmana, a city envisioned as a martial Milton Keynes, so families have not been commanded to move there yet.
		Pyinmana is the only place in Burma, other than the Wa Army's collection of casinos and barracks at Pangsang, where international telephone calls go through unhindered.
		"The reason we are moving is because Pyinmana, which is in the centre of Myanmar, is geographically and strategically located for the development of the country," Kyaw Hsan said, reading from a prepared statement.
	news.independent.co.uk /world/asia/article325441.ece (2001 words)

	Pyinmana just what the doctor ordered — Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.)
		Apart from astrological calculations and American invasion, there are more down-to-earth reasons why Burma's autocratic rulers have chosen Pyinmana as the new power center, according to civilian officials in Tachilek, opposite Thailand's Maesai...
		It is also easier to run the local affairs of Pyinmana (population: 200,000) than those of Rangoon (population: 5 million), he pointed out.
		Pyinmana, according to historians, derives from the Shan word, "Piang Markna" (Plain of Myrobalan, terminalia bellerica.) It used to be a way station for ancient Shan caravans going back and forth between the Shan hills and Rangoon.
	www.shanland.org /politics/2005/News-19-291105/?searchterm=None (542 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Southeast Asia news and business from Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam
		A siege mentality definitely motivated the move, but as the dust settles on Pyinmana, it is apparent that the move is part of a larger scheme to establish a new sort of royal order for the country.
		This year's relatively subdued Army Day celebrations were held in Pyinmana, which was christened the "Royal City" on March 27, the same date the country's liberation army was founded in 1945.
		The move to Pyinmana and the resurrection of royal symbolism, however, is only part of Than Shwe's strategy to preserve political power.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/HD04Ae03.html (1757 words)

	Article
		Second prize: two weeks.’ Marriages were reported to have been put to a severe test when civil servants announced to their wives that they would have to move there from Rangoon.
		Pyinmana’s small airfield was enlarged and modernised to take inter-city jets, a railway line was diverted and new roads driven into the area.
		One inquisitive westerner who arrived in Pyinmana recently found no guesthouse or hotel willing to rent him a room and when he made his bed in a monastery compound local police detained him in the middle of the night and virtually ran him out of town.
	www.chiangmainews.com /ecmn/viewfa.php?id=1464 (1025 words)

	Breaking News English - Myanmar (Nov 8, 2005)
		He said Pyinmana was “the most appropriate place for the seat of a new city”.
		He said Pyinmana was “the most appropriate ________ for the seat of a new city”.
		He said Pyinmana was “the most appropriate place for the _______ of a new city”.
	www.breakingnewsenglish.com /0511/051108-myanmar-e.html (1776 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Myanmar govt confirms moving capital to Pyinmana
		Nine ministries including those of defense, foreign affairs, home affairs, agriculture, electric power, and commerce have begun moving as the first batch to the new capital, he said, adding that all other ministries are to be moved out from Yangon but gave no details about how long it will take to complete.
		Pyinmana lies 390 kilometers north of Yangon and 300 km south of Mandalay.
		Pyinnama is a city of district level and the local population is estimated not to exceed 100,000.
	english.peopledaily.com.cn /200511/07/eng20051107_219606.html (260 words)

	dawn_1o9's Xanga Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		We'll be passing Pyinmana, and we'll probably sleep there a night on the return trip.
		Pyinmana is a small town, so there's nothing to visit besides pagodas, which I've already went.
		We were taking Mandalay-Yangon train, and the train arrived to Pyinmana late (1:00 pm instead of 11:30 am), and it stopped many times at the stations on the way.
	www.xanga.com /dawn_1o9 (3309 words)

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