A woman releases fishes into the lake in Yangon, Myanmar.

一位妇女正在往缅甸仰光的这个湖里给鱼放生。

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In Myanmar, a tiny, pampered middle class enjoy luxury hotels, golf and shopping malls in Yangon; the generals bask in comfort in the mountain fastness of Naypyidaw, their absurdist capital.

在缅甸，一个人数不多，饮食奢侈的中产阶级享受仰光奢华的酒店，出入高尔夫球场和购物商场；将军们沐浴在他们荒诞的新都内比都山寨的舒适之中。

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People visit the Shwedagon Pagoda during the yellow robe weaving festival in Yangon, Burma (Myanmar).

在缅甸传统的直桑岱点灯节，人们参观仰光大金塔。

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Rangoon is the former name of Yangon, Myanmar's largest city and its economic center.

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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.

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