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Members of the media visit a village in northern Rakhine State on a government-organized visit on Aug. 30. (Photo by Thurein Hla Htway)
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Rakhine crisis blights Myanmar economic outlook

Looming 'humanitarian catastrophe' dampens international relations, business sentiment

By GWEN ROBINSON, Chief editor and YUICHI NITTA, Nikkei staff writer | Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos

BANGKOK/YANGON -- In the shiny new shopping malls and trendy restaurants of Myanmar's commercial hub of Yangon there is no sense of the fear and mayhem gripping the country's western Rakhine state.

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