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Article: Most of post-cyclone reconstruction work finishes in Yangon
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- December 7, 2008
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Most of post-cyclone reconstruction work finishes in Yangon
YANGON, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- Most of the post-cyclone
reconstruction work has finished in the municipal area of Myanmar' s
former capital city of Yangon, the local weekly Flower News reported
Monday.
Spending 2.86 billion Kyats ( about 2.3 million U.S. dollars), 11
government departments have jointly rebuilt lamp posts, platforms,
markets, schools and offices destroyed in the storm and replanted
over 77,000 shade-providing trees and floral plants downed in the
disaster, the report said.
The May storm brought down over 13,000 old-aged trees and
thousands of other shade-providing ones including 500 of over one
hundred aged trees and ...