The Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) will provide US$250 million (8.8 billion baht) to upgrade Yangon’s circular railway and has also proposed building two underground railway lines, as ...

YANGON, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar is preparing to invite tender from international companies early next year to upgrade Yangon-Pyay railway, one of the most important sections in the country which ...

Long overdue for upgrades, the 46km line slowly trundles through 38 stations around the city Yangon, Myanmar: Myanmar’s commercial capital is fast shedding its sleepy backwater trappings as the city ...

YANGON, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- The state-run Myanmar Railways has begun a project of upgrading the Yangon circular railway with the first section in the western Yangon commuter rail network, the official ...

The Yangon Circular Railway is the local commuter rail network in Yangon, Myanmar. In this recording, World Bank Country Manager Kanthan Shankar boards the train and shares his observations about ...

YANGON: A mine explosion targeted the downbound railway track between Kyaukdaga and Thahtaygon stations on the Yangon-Mandalay railway line. At around 7:00 AM on April 28, Downbound Freight Train No. ...

Train used to be shunned — now it’s the only relief in car-clogged city YANGON: Trains chug around Yangon’s circular railway at a stately pace barely faster than a brisk walk, but this creaking relic ...

All aboard! Railway chiefs say that upgrades now being carried out could double the speed of the Yangon-Mandalay service. The first phase of the US$2 million operation, covering the 267-kilometre ...

YANGON -- It is 9 a.m., and the platforms on the southern side of Yangon's old Central Station are crowded. Some waiting passengers sit right on the tracks. A family takes turns peeling pieces from a ...