Coffee entrepreneurs seek success in Myanmar's poorest state

Partners pin hope on wine and cosmetics as tickets out of poverty

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Mar Hung, center, and his partners make various products from the coffee beans they grow in the state of Chin, in western Myanmar.

YUICHI NITTA, Nikkei staff writer

YANGON -- Young people from Myanmar are starting businesses to escape poverty in Chin, the country's poorest state in Southeast Asia's least developed country.

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