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Myanmar takes steps to preserve its history before tourist boom

Yadana Htun

Photo Credit: Thant Myint, the grandson of the third UN Secretary General U Thant, shows Norwegian Trade and Industry Minister Trond Giske around Yangon.  Flickr / NHD

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Tourists may be more interested in Myanmar’s unsavory history than the one tourism officials will be set on selling, but projects like the new museum will helps foreigners understand the full history of the long-isolated country.

A home that once belonged to a former United Nations secretary-general, the late U Thant, is being restored and will open as a new museum in Yangon, Myanmar's largest city. Government officials, diplomats and members of U Thant's family gathered Saturday at a ceremony at the home, a two-story yellow villa built in the 1920s and where he lived in the 1950s before serving as the U.N. chief. It is being renovated as part of an effort to preserve the colonial-era cityscape of

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