i believe the myanmarese still use the oldfangled british system. elevation if feet,
distance in miles. took me a while to figure out the numbered posts were in miles
rather than km....first couple days out of yangon there were none. later when
they appeared, there were only 7 interval posts between them. huh?
furlongs, baby, furlongs.

but nowadays plenty of chinese signs. and with chinese engineers building roads and
railway all over southeast asia, can usually find a "chineser" to ask directions. if you
try this, always go for the guy in the suv, or carrying the engineering maps....regular
laborers have no clue about distance or road conditions (sleeping in the transport bus
to the work site).