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Student protesters struggle to break a police human-chain during a student protester ahead of a crackdown in Letpadan, 140 kilometers (90 miles) north of the country's main city Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday March 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Myanmar police charge at student protesters with batons

By Gemunu Amarasinghe - The Washington Times

This Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014 photo shows the entrance to the office of World Health Organization in Yangon, Myanmar. The World Health Organization's office, surrounded by an eight-foot high fence and an iron gate, says it is paying around $80,000 a month for its office in this garish mansion in Myanmar's crumbling old capital. With the lifting of most sanctions and the easing of diplomatic pressure after the former pariah state began its transition to democracy, foreign donors, international aid organizations and multinational companies started flooding into the country. That has pushed rents sky-high, some organizations putting up to a $1 million dollars a year into the pockets of former and current generals and cronies. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

Aid groups in Myanmar trip over links to elite

By ROBIN McDOWELL - Associated Press

In this April 28, 2014 photo, land grab victims burn incense sticks and pray in front of a makeshift altar for the “Demon of Earth” at their protest camp in Yangon, Myanmar. Families from Michaung Kan in eastern Yangon have eagerly tested newfound freedoms by protesting and sending petitions to the president and parliament, to no avail. Now some are turning to old ways: Curses and black magic. Coffins marked with the names of those who seized property have been set ablaze. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

Myanmar land grab victims turn to black magic

By AYE AYE WIN - Associated Press

In this April 12, 2014 photo, Nay Aung, founder of Oway company poses in his office, Yangon, Myanmar. Nay Aung, a 34-year-old Stanford graduate and former business operations and strategy manager at Google Inc., is among a vanguard of overseas-trained professionals who have returned to Myanmar to find both opportunities and challenges. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Myanmar returnees bet on frontier economy’s future

By ELAINE KURTENBACH - Associated Press

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)

Myanmar clunkers scrapped in rush for ‘new’ cars

By ELAINE KURTENBACH - Associated Press