This 70-year old market is Yangon's main shopping place with over 2000 shops. It is sometimes called Scott Market, its old British name, but it is named for the national hero who was instrumental in Myanmar gaining independent nation status after World War II. He was chosen to lead the new nation in the 1947 election but was assassinated on July 19, 1947 at age 32 before he had a chance to govern. His daughter, Aung San Suu Kyi, is the leader of the party which won the election of 1990 but was not allowed to form a government. She is a Nobel Peace Prize recipient who is well-known outside Burma. The market is a shopper's paradise, but a shopper needs to know what the merchandise really is and what it is really worth in order to bargain successfully. Here Nina bought two hand-woven pieces of material - one from the Khami Ethnic Group of the Southern Chin State for 18,000 kyats and a cotton one made in a workshop in Meiktila which is on the road between Bagan and Mandalay.