Junta Begins Shifting Officials Out of Capital
Myanmar’s secretive military government began moving its ministries out of the capital in a long-awaited exercise that analysts said was driven by fears of a U.S. attack.
Convoys of trucks laden with bedding, clothes and chairs headed out of Yangon for the provincial trading post of Pyinmana, 200 miles to the north.
Flanked by a mountain range and dense forests, the new government compound will include the prime minister’s residence, diplomatic quarters, an airport, a hospital, a golf course, hotels and nearly 40 buildings to accommodate 500 bureaucrats.
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