Myanmar - Obama Presidency Oral History Myanmar Index / Locations Transcripts Gary Pruitt ...AP also opened a full-time bureau in Myanmar in 2013, after the government ther... ...Given those two cases, North Korea and Myanmar , I'm wondering if you had a feeling a... ...story of the whole world to the world. Myanmar was tough. In Myanmar we had one of ou... ...to the world. Myanmar was tough. In Myanmar we had one of our reporters imprisoned... Daniel Russel ...secretary, I traveled to Naypyidaw, to Yangon ; met at extraordinary length wit... ...Mitchell and later Scot Marciel in Yangon . These were among the things that yo... Derek Mitchell ...would start in Naypyidaw, then down to Yangon . It was controlled. I don't remember ... ...don't know, is the US embassy in Yangon ? Yangon, yes. So the center o... ...know, is the US embassy in Yangon? Yangon , yes. So the center of gravity o... ...of gravity of your work shifts to Yangon . Now, you talked earlier abou... ...on then, once you were there in Yangon ? How was that process going to mov... ...corridor of the country, which is Yangon ; Naypyidaw, the capital; and Mandalay... ...When people in Rakhine State travel to Yangon , they say, “We are traveling t... ...were in the parliamentary building in Yangon , about to meet Thein Sein, th... ...window at the trees, and the look of Yangon . He said, “This reminds me of Jakarta... ...out from the universities, including Yangon . A president of the United States wa... ...that it was a six-hour visit in Yangon . Think about what that meant. Tha... Show more... Elizabeth Phu ...meeting Aung San Suu Kyi in her home in Yangon , the same home where she had been kep... Thant Myint-U ...Initiative, and he established the Yangon Heritage Trust to protect the city'... ...leading education discussion center in Yangon , and an affiliated scholar at th... ...for the NGO that I had set up, the Yangon Heritage Trust, by friends an... ...of friends in a service department in Rangoon , and we watched it overnight at tha... ...and the generals who were in power in Rangoon , I tried my best to better understan... ...few days, setting up shop in hotels in Rangoon . The World Bank went back for th... ...envoy and then later the ambassador to Rangoon . I was in touch with the embassy. ... ...talk with him? In the middle of Old Rangoon by the river is a site called th... ...years. When the capital was moved from Rangoon to Naypyidaw, that site was essentiall... ...about my efforts to try to protect the Rangoon old town from demolition, and we talke... ...but he recognized very little, and that Rangoon in some ways reminded him of th... ...the future of cities and the future of Rangoon , then, to some extent, on some of th... ...seventy years of interethnic conflict. Rangoon was this incredible melting pot o... ...communities. You go to downtown Rangoon , and in that square mile around whic... ...going to be popular with people in Rangoon or Mandalay, who didn't know much abou... Show more... Related Topics go to the Transition Transition go to the Elections and Campaigns Elections and Campaigns go to the Arts and Humanities Arts and Humanities go to the Immigration Immigration go to the Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa