Farmers urge region government to restart Southwest New City project
A farmers group is pressing local authorities to resurrect the controversial Southwest New City project. Though the three companies selected to build the new city were ready to proceed on the basis of approval from the outgoing Yangon Region government, the incoming National League for Democracy government said it would cancel the project if residents did not benefit sufficiently. Former Yangon Region forestry minister U Kyaw Soe said on June 25, “We need to set priorities in regional development, which will bring tens of thousands of new homes and new jobs.” U Tin Sein, joint secretary of the Southwest Region Development Group said local MPs were pressing for a resumption of Southwest New City in both the Pyithu hluttaw and the Yangon Region hluttaw.
