BANGKOK — Six weeks after Myanmar’s milit-built capital, Naypyitaw, was devastated by a 7.7-magnitude earthquake — the largest of many in the past century — a question mark hangs over the city: is it worth reconstructing?
Naypyitaw straddles the major Sagaing fault line that also runs northward through Mandalay, the last Burmese royal capital, and down to Yangon, the British colonial capital that remains the country’s largest city and commercial hub.
