After seven years of construction delays, a pandemic, and a military coup, the $188 million Yangon-Dala Bridge finally opened on Feb. 6.

Known officially as the Myanmar-Korea Friendship Bridge, the country's longest cable-stayed bridge connects the commercial capital Yangon to one of the region's poorest townships.

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