Taungtha, Mandalay
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Multiple clashes took place in the town in August 2024 between the People's Defense Force and Myanmar's military.[4]
Economics
Taungtha is in the cotton growing area of Burma[5] and the China World Best Group completed a garment factory there in 2006.[6] The main occupation of Taungtha is growing onion in the bank of Sintelwa. Besides, there also have been cultivation of varieties of bean, corn, etc. (ref: Record of Taungtha Township.)
Notes
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- ↑ "Taungtha (Approved)" Taungtha, Mandalay at GEOnet Names Server United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- ↑ Barber, Cecil Thomas (1936) The Tertiary igneous rocks of the Pakokku district and the Salingyi township of the lower Chindwin district, Burma Geological Survey of India, Calcutta, India, page 134, Template:Catalog lookup link
- ↑ a b c Burma 1:250,000 topographic map, Series U542, NF 46-12 Myingyin U.S. Army Map Service, August 1960
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- ↑ Hunter, William Wilson (editor) (1908) Imperial gazetteer of India, Volume 18, Moram to Nayagarh Clarendon Press, Oxford, England, page 126, Now, the economy of Taungtha is completely not depend on cotton growing. There are many cash crops are grown in Taungtha township such as onion, various kind of bean etc. Template:Catalog lookup link
- ↑ Kudo, Toshihiro (2008) "Myanmar's economic relations with China: who benefits and who pays?" pp. 87–112 In Skidmore, Monique and Wilson, Trevor (editors) (2008) Dictatorship, Disorder and Decline in Myanmar ANU E Press, Canberra, page 101, Template:ISBN
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External links
- "Taungtha Area, Mandalay Division"Script error: No such module "Unsubst". map ID: MIMU536v01, creation date: 18 August 2010, Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU)
- Satellite map at Maplandia.com