Local media report that the Yangon City Development Committee is pushing the project, claiming it is important to ensure visitors have more attractions in the evening.
Myanmar’s former capital, Yangon, is opening a night market along its downtown 52nd Street.
Local media report that the Yangon City Development Committee is pushing the project, claiming it is important to ensure visitors have more attractions in the evening.
Elsewhere in Myanmar, major restoration work on 89 quake-damaged pagodas and Buddhist temples in Bagan has begun.
The first phase will focus on 36 pagodas including Bagan’s well-known Sulamani and Ananda temples.
A total of 389 pagodas and temples were damaged when a 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar in August last year.
The entire restoration project will take five years and will require fund raising from the private sector.