the township has five primary schools, two middle schools, six high schools and a university. the township is home to three public and three private hospitals, including east yangon general hospital, one of the major hospitals in yangon. one of the country's two burmese language dailies "kyemon", is based out of here. (the township used to boast four national dailies--"kyemon", and the now defunct newspapers, "the botathaung" and "loktha pyithu neizin", the burmese language version of the working people's daily.)