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Getting information out of Burma (4:30)


Listen September 27, 2007 permalink

The reclusive military regime in Burma -- or Myanmar -- can't stop the news of protests there from spreading around the world. Information technology like the Internet and cell phones are helping Burmese pro-democracy activists get the word out. That wasn't the case in 1988 -- the last time there was a pro-democracy uprising in Burma. The World's Technology Correspondent Clark Boyd reports.


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