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  • 06/01/12 Yangon's poor get help for a dignified end Source: AlertNet A blackboard lists the names of the deceased who are to be cremated that day at Yaeway cemetery, Myanmar, May 16, 2012.
  • 05/31/12 Curtain opens wide in Myanmar, a crack in North... Source: Taipei Times Myanmar, run by a cabal of generals, squelched any attempt at democratic change and kept the country's most popular figure under strict house arrest for years.
  • 05/31/12 Land of white elephants and gold pagodas - Myanmar... Source: New Kerala Dot Com It's a mix of the old and the new, of wide expanses and quaint tree-lined avenues, of lofty buildings and ancient gold pagodas glinting in the sun. Myanmar's new capital Nay Pyi Taw and its old one Yangon, which Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited this week, are an enchanting study in contrasts.
  • 05/30/12 Teeming with symbols of power, not people Source: The Telegraph of India As Manmohan Singh drove down the spectacular road to the Myanmar President's palace on Monday morning, he must have wondered about the economics of it all.
  • 05/30/12 PM does balancing act in Yangon Source: INDIA TODAY In late May, Yangon has a feel of Mumbai in the monsoons - overcast skies that send down an incessant drizzle and traffic logjams that suck the life out of you.

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