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In this June 14, 2013 photo, passengers, including a Buddhist monk, travel atop a public transport passing a toll-gate in the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar. Online car sales may also be booming. There’s no official data, but over a dozen such websites are operating. There’s huge room for growth in a country of over 60 million with only 38 vehicles per 1,000 people Because of the abysmal state of public transport in Yangon, a city of 5 million, those who can afford to drive, do. Those who can’t cram into ancient buses perched precariously on huge tires or hitch rides on pickups outfitted with benches and makeshift roofs. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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In this April 7, 2014 photo, a taxi driver navigates a 1989 Nissan Trad Sunny, one of few remaining clunkers, through traffic in Yangon, Myanmar. One of the quaintest of many anachronisms in Yangon, a city of moldering colonial villas and gleaming golden pagodas, used to be the decades old Toyotas, Chevys and other clunkers wheezing down its mostly empty roads, a visible sign of sanctions and economic isolation. Now, the streets have filled with a flood of newer used cars, mostly from Japan. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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In this Aug. 22, 2012 photo, passengers get into a slowly moving Chevrolet bus in Yangon, Myanmar. These old Chevys, built on the Canadian made military personnel carriers that were left behind after Work war 11, were sent to the scrap heap at the end of 2012. Because of the abysmal state of public transport in Yangon, a city of 5 million, those who can afford to drive, do. Those who can’t cram into ancient buses perched precariously on huge tires or hitch rides on pickups outfitted with benches and makeshift roofs. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)
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** FILE ** Children walk near a graffiti painted by Myanmar artist Arker Kyaw to welcome U.S. President Obama on a street in Yangon, Myanmar, Nov. 17, 2012. (Associated Press)
