Myanmar: Japan Aid Widens Myanmar Factories vs Farms Divide

May 29, 2014 | Aye Aye Win and Elaine Kurtenbach, Associated Press
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THILAWA, Myanmar (AP) -- Tin Hsan and her husband lived modestly in the outskirts of Myanmar's commercial capital Yangon, growing rice and betel leaves on their 22 acres and peddling vegetables, but they got by, until they were forced to move to make way for Thilawa, a showcase industrial zone being built with Japanese aid.