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The newspaper industry might be shrinking in the rest of the world but it expanded Monday in Myanmar when privately run daily newspapers hit newsstands for the first time in 50 years.

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For most people in Myanmar, it will be a novelty when privately run daily newspapers hit the streets on Monday. Many weren't even born when the late dictator Ne Win imposed a state monopoly on the daily press in the 1960s.

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When U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visits Myanmar this week, she'll see a country that has made some progress toward democracy, but has even farther to go to fix the corrupt economy and ethnic conflicts that stem from decades of military rule.

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Myanmar's first parliament in more than two decades nominated five vice-presidential candidates Tuesday, one of whom will become president and lead the new military-dominated government.

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Myanmar's ruling junta released the deputy leader of the country's pro-democracy party from nearly seven years in detention, but offered no indication that he or still-detained party leader Aung San Suu Kyi would be allowed to take part in this year's elections.

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BANGKOK (AFP) - Two rare protests against a massive hike in fuel prices have alarmed Myanmar's ruling junta, recalling the early days of a 1988 uprising that toppled the previous military regime, analysts said.

Reports of the street marches, with protesters defying stiff warnings from the junta to rally twice within a week, have made headlines around the world, shining a spotlight on the generals' secretive regime.

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For most people in Myanmar, it will be a novelty when privately run daily newspapers hit the streets on Monday. Many weren't even born when the late dictator Ne Win imposed a state monopoly on the daily press in the 1960s.

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When U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visits Myanmar this week, she'll see a country that has made some progress toward democracy, but has even farther to go to fix the corrupt economy and ethnic conflicts that stem from decades of military rule.

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Myanmar's first parliament in more than two decades nominated five vice-presidential candidates Tuesday, one of whom will become president and lead the new military-dominated government.

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Myanmar's ruling junta released the deputy leader of the country's pro-democracy party from nearly seven years in detention, but offered no indication that he or still-detained party leader Aung San Suu Kyi would be allowed to take part in this year's elections.

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BANGKOK (AFP) - Two rare protests against a massive hike in fuel prices have alarmed Myanmar's ruling junta, recalling the early days of a 1988 uprising that toppled the previous military regime, analysts said.

Reports of the street marches, with protesters defying stiff warnings from the junta to rally twice within a week, have made headlines around the world, shining a spotlight on the generals' secretive regime.

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