Her trial is being held inside a prison compound in the city of Yangon.
Under a U.S. license, GE is supplying medical equipments to private hospitals via a local distributor in Yangon, the largest city.
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Fewer than 200 visas have been issued to United Nations emergency staff, who must then apply for short-term permits to leave Yangon, the main city.
But the large crowds of supporters that she drew as she travelled outside the city of Yangon for the first time in many years alarmed the junta.
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There were indications, too, that the violence spread Friday to at least one village on the outskirts of Meikhtila, about 550 kilometers (340 miles) north of the main city of Yangon.
Finally, we were kind of escorted out of the area, we managed to talk our way out, got back to the main city, Yangon, and we decided it was time for me to leave.
Rangoon is the former name of Yangon, Myanmar's largest city and its economic center.
One Muslim shopkeeper in northern Yangon, Myanmar's largest city, says his sales have fallen by two-thirds since a video of Wirathu preaching began circulating a month and a half ago.
But in the teashops of Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city, the talk two decades on is not of sanctions but of the need for dialogue, of frustration with the main opposition party, the National League for Democracy, and even with its detained leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and of the widening gap between those who oppose the junta from abroad and those who live under its thumb.
After their major bet on the Thilawa special economic zone south of Yangon, Japanese contractors have plans to deepen the Yangon River's estuary so that cargo ships can sail directly up to the city's shores and offload more containers of cars that are already being briskly snapped up at busy dealerships.
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