Articles by By Damir Sagolj and Aung Hla Tun for Reuters

Bye bye "bikepoo": New era of transport dawns on Myanmar

(Reuters) - Holy water is sprinkled over a new Honda sub-compact festooned with flowers and red ribbons. For more than a century, owners of ox-drawn carts, World War Two-era trucks and decrepit buses have descended on the Shwe Nyaung Pin Nat Shrine under a banyan tree in Myanmar's biggest city to bless one of the world's oldest vehicle fleets, dominated by Japanese rust-buckets from the 1980s or older.