Country
dialling code: 95Travelling Tips
Country
dialling code: 95
Embassy of the United States of America
Street address: 581 Merchant Street, Yangon, Myanmar
Postal address: PO Box 521, Yangon, Myanmar
Tel: (1) 282 055-6 or 282 181. Fax: (1) 280 409.
Myanmar Tourism Promotion Board
5 Signal Pagoda Road, Dagon Township, Yangon, Myanmmar
Tel: (1) 2436 3943. Fax: (1) 245 001.
Website: www.myanmar-tourism.com
Myanmar Travel and Tours
c/o Ministry of Hotels and Tourism, 77-91 Sule Pagoda Road, Yangon, Myanmar
Tel: (1) 283 997 or 282 013. Fax: (1) 289 588 or 254 417.
E-mail: mtt.mht@mptmail.net.mm
Website: www.myanmars.net/mtt
Time: GMT + 6.5.
Electricity: 220/230 volts AC, 50Hz.
Communications:
Telephone: IDD is available to the main cities. Country code: 95. Outgoing international code: 00. For emergencies, dial 199 (police), 191 (fire) and 192 (ambulance). There is a limited public internal service. Only larger cities can be dialled direct from within Myanmar; smaller towns still use manual switchboards and callers need to ask the operator to connect them to a specific town operator. The Central Telephone & Telegraph (CTT) office on the corner of Pansodan and Mahabandoola Streets is the only public place in the country where international telephone calls can be conveniently arranged. The office is open 0800-1600 Monday to Friday and 0900-1400 at weekends and on holidays.
Mobile telephone: GSM 900 network is operated by Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications. Fees are high.
Fax: May be sent from the Central Telegraph Office on Mahabandoola Street and there are further facilities at the Post and Telecommunications Corporation in Yangon.
Internet/E-mail: ISPs include the Ministry of Post and Telecommunication (web site: http://www.mpt.net.mm). Set-up fees are high.
Post: Service to Europe takes up to a week and letter forms are quicker than ordinary letters. To ensure despatch it is advisable to go to the post office personally to obtain a certificate of posting, for which a small fee is charged.
Press: The only English-language newspaper is The New Light of Myanmar. Myanmar Travel & Tours also publishes a tourist publication, Today, in English. Locally published magazines in English include Golden Myanmar, Myanmar Chronicle and Myanmar Perspective, which are all available from bookshops.