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Rangoon

/ æŋˈɡː /

noun

  1. the former official name (until 1989, but still widely used) of Yangon
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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From frying crab Rangoon to sneaking naps on bags of rice, her story illustrates one family’s struggle to grasp the American dream, but it’s not all stir-fry and fortune cookies.

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And so it has these strange lines out of this guy going into this reverie about being posted in Rangoon.

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The wadded-up paper filling the body of the takeout container — rather than cargo of a lot more crab Rangoon — is the letdown here.

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In it, he wrote that the country’s architecture should focus on historical and regional styles, and resist the “creeping cancer” of modernism that was making “everywhere — from Riyadh to Rangoon” look similar.

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In the capital Yangon, then known as Rangoon, she was swept up in a student-led revolution against the then junta that had plunged the country into a ruinous isolation.

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