Burmese workers turning former British colonial railway building into luxury hotel protest over unp

Published date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 17:03:09 +0700

Hundreds of Burmese builders turning a former British colonial railway station into a luxury hotel protested against unpaid wages yesterday (Jan 19).

The construction workers had been developing the former Burma Railways headquarters in the capital Yangon, then known as Rangoon. It will become an upmarket hotel, office and apartment complex.