(Source: Google Earth - Pyinmana)
Above: New government buildings in the hills outside of Pyinmana
Hi-res images of the new Myanmar
capital construction - July 4, 2006
Don't miss the incredible images of the bunker-building Myanmar
military's new capital in Pyinmana. (Google
Earth placemark - Install
Google Earth)
Google
Earth Imagery May Have Rattled Burmese Regime -
The Irrawaddy, July 3, 2006
Another reason for the [Burmese] junta's efforts to block
Google ("Junta Blocks Google and Gmail," The Irrawaddy
Online, June 30, 2006) may well stem for that company's decision
to highlight Pyinmana on its Google
Earth product. The addition of Pyinmana is recent and
the high
resolution imagery is excellent, allowing anyone to examine
closely the scale of the project and the mindset of its builders.
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