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Abandoned cities are always more interesting to explore than modern ones because of the myths and legends circling around them. Cahaba is one of those cities often referred as a ghost town due to a legend about a ghostly orb that once appeared in a now-vanished garden. Located in Dallas County southwest of Selma, the town has served as Alabama’s first permanent state capital from 1820 to 1825. However, once the capital moved to Tuscaloosa due to a major flood struck, most of the new residents followed. After the improving of the river transportation and developing a cotton industry, Cahaba stood back on its feet and remained as Dallas’ county seat a few more...

Nine out of 10 new megacities to emerge out of Asia and AfricaTwenty-two of the 33 cities that are home to more than 10 million are in Asia and Africa, and nine more from these continents will join them by 2030, reported the World Economic Forum, citing UN data. The cities of Seoul, Ho Chi Minh City, Chengdu, Nanjing, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, and Tehran will rank among the 10 cities that the UN predicts will break the 10-million mark, UN data showed. In Africa, Luanda and Dar es Salaam, which is growing by half a million people a year, will have crossed the 10-million mark by 2030. “The rise in the number of megacities is the most visible evidence of the accelerating global trend...

Singapore ranks top in Asia, while San Francisco loses its perch as greatest home for startups and technology companies New York just beat San Francisco for the honour of “world’s top tech city” while Singapore dominated Asia, a new ranking by Savills showed. For a reputation for being a global commercial centre, New York took over the number one spot from the Californian city in this year’s Savills Tech Cities Index. Singapore ranks sixth worldwide, squeezed between Boston (fifth) and Los Angeles (sixth). Excelling in the tech and business environments, the city-state ranks 10th best worldwide for metro systems, under the mobility subranking. The index measures...

The Economist Intelligence Unit released the 2018 Worldwide Cost of Living Survey which ranked cities on the basis of 400 individual prices across 160 products and services. The Economist Intelligence Unit released the 2018 Worldwide Cost of Living Survey which ranked cities on the basis of 400 individual prices across 160 products and services. These products included food, clothing, household supplies, personal care items, rents, transport, utility bills, private schooling, domestic help and recreational costs. Here's the list of the 10 most expensive cities in the world. Rank 1 | Singapore | The city retained the top spot for the fifth consecutive year. One factor where the city...

ရန္ကုန္တိုင္း အတြင္း Alliance Star ကုမၸဏီက အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္မည့္ Eco-Green City စီမံကိန္းသည္ အစိုးရ ႏွင့္ စာခ်ဳပ္ခ်ဳပ္ဆိုၿပီး ၆ လအတြင္း စီမံကိန္း စတင္ရမည္ ျဖစ္ေသာ္လည္း ယေန႔ အခ်ိန္အထိ မေဆာင္ရြက္မႈ အေပၚ လႊတ္ေတာ္ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ားက ေဝဖန္ေနၾကသည္။ အဆိုပါစီမံကိန္းသည္...

ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္စည္ပင္သာယာေရးေကာ္မတီႏွင့္ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံ မသန္စြမ္းသူမ်ား ေရွ႕ေဆာင္အဖြဲ႕တို႔ ပူးေပါင္း က်င္းပေသာ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ႏွင့္ ကမၻာသုံးပုံစံ ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္မ်ား ေဖာ္ေဆာင္ေရးဆိုင္ရာ အလုပ္႐ုံေဆြးေႏြးပြဲကို နိုဝင္ဘာ ၅ရက္က ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ Summit Parkview Hotel...

Around 3000 smart city projects worth Rs 1.2 lakh crore are in various stages of implementation out of which 79 projects worth Rs 841 crore have been completed, informed Anupam Mishra, Economic Advisor, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India, today. Around 3000 smart city projects worth Rs 1.2 lakh crore are in various stages of implementation out of which 79 projects worth Rs 841 crore have been completed, informed Anupam Mishra, Economic Advisor, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India, today. He also said that the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs is preparing a Liveable Index for smart cities across the country, the bench marking of which...

Singapore was rated the world’s most expensive city, marking five years in the top frame of the Worldwide Cost of Living Survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Hong Kong, Seoul and Sydney were ranked fourth, sixth and 10th, respectively, in this year’s survey tracking prices of over 150 products and services in 133 cities as of September 2017. Singapore was rated 16 percent more expensive than benchmark New York City, which ranked 13th priciest worldwide. Paris took over Hong Kong’s second spot from last year. The “only euro-area city” in the top 10, the French capital “remains extremely expensive to live” in, although the cost of...

A Seoul-backed international organisation of city governments and ICT institutions has revealed plans to include North Korea in its network, GovInsider reported. The World Smart Sustainable Cities Organisation (WeGO) will build smart cities in the Hermit Kingdom, according to Lee Kyong-yul, the organisation’s secretary general. “We would like to work together with North Korean cities,” Lee told GovInsider. “In case they are not well-developed, we would like to help them to be smart.” Pyongyang will be joining Seoul, Beijing, Moscow, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington DC in an inaugural smart city network that could be launched by September 2019. A forum will...

ေရာ္ဘာစိုက္ပ်ိဳးေရးလုပ္ငန္းကို အဓိကအမ်ားဆုံးလုပ္ကိုင္ေလ့ရွိသည့္ မြန္ျပည္နယ္တြင္ ေရာ္ဘာၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္တည္ေဆာက္ရန္ မုဒုံၿမိဳ႕နယ္ကို ေရြးခ်ယ္ထားၿပီးျဖစ္သည္။ ညႇိႏွိုင္း မုဒုံၿမိဳ႕နယ္ လက္တက္ေက်းရြာရွိ ခပ္ရခပ္ယူဘုရားအနီးရွိ ေၿမ ၃၆၈ ဧကကို ေရာ္ဘာၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္...