That s what the former ruling junta renamed the river in 1989, when it also changed the country s name from Burma to Myanmar and the then-capital from Rangoon to Yangon. State-run newspapers published an Information Ministry announcement Tuesday telling the Irrawaddy Publishing Group that it must change the names of its two publications named after the Irrawaddy River to use the spelling "Ayeyawady." YANGON (AP) It was easy for Myanmar s former military government to change the name of the country s mightiest river, but a magazine ordered to make the same change is putting up a fight.
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