Authority to move old big cemetery of Pyinmanar to a new place

Yangon october 22
Authority to move old big cemetery of Pyinmanar to a new place where 20 miles far away from old cemetry.They made announcement on 15 October and saying that local residences must move their relatives graves from old cemetry as soos as possible because now Pyinmana become the capital of Myanmar.

As the character of capital of Myanmar , the cemetery is not supposed to be here, said an officail from Pyin Ma Nar city development commitee.

Local people are very disappointed with the move of cemetery .They said the new cemetery is very far from thier houses and it will costs more money when they have funerals. They added, now if they have funera l from now on, the funeral car service to new cemetry will cost
20 000 kyats.

Pyinmana population: 100,000 (2006 estimate)) is a logging town and sugar cane refinery center in Mandalay Division of Myanmar. The administrative capital of Myanmar was officially moved to a militarised greenfield site two miles west of Pyinmana on November 6, 2005. Pyinma is approximately 200 miles (320 km) north of Yangon.