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Many of the new lawmakers from Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD party will bunk down in rooms furnished with little more than wooden beds with a foam mattress and flat pillow. The rooms are far from the mansions where lawmakers from the outgoing military-linked government lived but it is the only realistic option for many of the new MPs, who were either political prisoners or activists, earning a salary of 3,880 dollars a year © Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images

10 march 2016,

by Editorial staff