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Line of Buddhist monks crossing a road 2. Close-up feet3. Monks receiving daily alms from local women.  4. Pan from earth-mover to monks as they continue their alms round 5. Close-up rice being served...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eNaypyitaw, Myanmar - 26 March 2007\u003cbr/\u003e1. Line of Buddhist monks crossing a road \u003cbr/\u003e2. Close-up feet\u003cbr/\u003e3. Monks receiving daily alms from local women.  \u003cbr/\u003e4. Pan from earth-mover to monks as they continue their alms round \u003cbr/\u003e5. Close-up rice being served in bowls. \u003cbr/\u003e6. Various monks walking past construction vehicles \u003cbr/\u003e7. Construction work in front of buildings \u003cbr/\u003e8. Driver in cab of a digger\u003cbr/\u003e9. Close-up of the digger's bucket \u003cbr/\u003e10. Builders at work in front of completed housing \u003cbr/\u003e11. Workers \u003cbr/\u003e12. Pile of stones outside apartment block \u003cbr/\u003e13. Children looking out of a window \u003cbr/\u003e14. Pan across rows of identical apartment blocks \u003cbr/\u003e15. Staircase that connects the apartment blocks \u003cbr/\u003e16. Street sign  with apartment blocks behind \u003cbr/\u003e17. Man standing at window \u003cbr/\u003e18. Interior of communal balcony with several people looking down. \u003cbr/\u003e19. Man sitting in his flat \u003cbr/\u003e20. Hammock strung up in a bedroom in place of a bed \u003cbr/\u003e21. Clothing hanging on a washing line in the window. \u003cbr/\u003e22. Pan of kitchen \u003cbr/\u003e23. Interior flat showing bare floor and simple bamboo chairs \u003cbr/\u003e24. Mid of bench \u003cbr/\u003e25. Resident Than Than walking past doorway\u003cbr/\u003e26. SOUNDBITE: (Myanmar)  Than Than, Naypyitaw resident : \u003cbr/\u003e\"In Yangon my house is wooden, with a wooden floor. There I have to live in low-grade housing. The standard here's much better.\" \u003cbr/\u003e27. Wide shot of market \u003cbr/\u003e28. Mid shot of market  \u003cbr/\u003e29. Girls talking on street \u003cbr/\u003e30. People boarding a bus \u003cbr/\u003e31. Noodle seller Myint Khin serving noodles from an open-air stall \u003cbr/\u003e32. Close-up noodles in bowl \u003cbr/\u003e33. SOUNDBITE: (Myanmar) Myint Khin, Noodle Seller: \u003cbr/\u003e\"We only moved in a month ago so we don't really know much about the conditions here yet.\" \u003cbr/\u003eBangkok, Thailand - 23 March 2007\u003cbr/\u003e34. Exiled former political prisoner Zin Linn, a spokesman for the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma, an exiled opposition group walking into room \u003cbr/\u003e35. Various Zin Linn taking a book on Burma (now Myanmar) from a shelf\u003cbr/\u003e36. SOUNDBITE: (English)  Zin Linn, Political Exile :\u003cbr/\u003e\"They (civil servants) do not want to go there because it is a malaria-infested area and also there is no medicines and no facilities for good living, just like that. Everything's difficult. So the government staff, even they do not want to move there.\" \u003cbr/\u003eNaypyitaw, Myanmar - 26 March 2007\u003cbr/\u003e37. Various labourers, including women and children digging\u003cbr/\u003e38. People gathered in group \u003cbr/\u003e39. Secret policeman trying to cover camera lens after he was challenged for interrogating labourers who spoke to foreign journalists \u003cbr/\u003eYangon (formerly called Rangoon), Myanmar - 28 March 2007 \u003cbr/\u003e40. Close-up flower  pulls focus to show the Sule Pagoda  \u003cbr/\u003e41. Wide shot river  \u003cbr/\u003e42. Various downtown Yangon \u003cbr/\u003e43. Wide of Sule Pagoda \u003cbr/\u003eNaypyitaw, Myanmar - 26 March 2007\u003cbr/\u003e44. Myanmar's Information Minister, Brigadier-General Kyaw Hsan, walking into news conference\u003cbr/\u003e45. SOUNDBITE: (English) Brigadier-General Kyaw Hsan, Information Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The capital city, which is the administrative hub, is required to be placed with easy access to each and every part of the nation. For these reasons, Pyinmana, Lewe and Tatkon townships are mobilised into Naypyitaw.\" \u003cbr/\u003eNaypyitaw, Myanmar - 27 March 2007\u003cbr/\u003e46. Various of Myanmar soldiers marching during Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, with Senior General Than Shwe taking the salute \u003cbr/\u003eBangkok, Thailand - 23 March 2007\u003cbr/\u003e47. SOUNDBITE: (English) Larry Jagan, Burma Analyst: \u003cbr/\u003e\"There was a real concern that they were becoming contaminated by the masses in Rangoon and being made soft by the increased standard of living in Rangoon; the restaurants, the consumer goods. So this was a way really of isolating and insulating the military so they would remain loyal.\" \u003cbr/\u003eNaypyitaw, Myanmar - 26 March 2007\u003cbr/\u003e48. Truck going past diggers at construction site\u003cbr/\u003e49. Construction workers \u003cbr/\u003e50. Sunset over a partially-built building \u003cbr/\u003eThe military government of Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) has temporarily allowed journalists a peek at its new capital city. \u003cbr/\u003eUntil now foreigners have been forbidden from visiting the new city of Naypyitaw, which is still under construction. \u003cbr/\u003eThe government has been relocating bureaucrats to the new township since November 2005. \u003cbr/\u003eMyanmar has been under military rule since 1962 when Army General Ne Win overthrew the government of  the then elected prime minister U Nu. \u003cbr/\u003eNaypyitaw lies 350 kilometres (217 miles) north of the current capital Yangon (formerly Rangoon).  It's a remote city that was once the headquarters of the now-defunct Burmese Communist Party. \u003cbr/\u003eCameras were allowed into the this new city for just 48 hours. They revealed a dusty construction site where thousands of identical apartment blocks were being erected.\u003cbr/\u003eThe government have declined  to say how much the project is costing, stating only that it's being paid for by the sale of government land and buildings in the old capital Yangon. \u003cbr/\u003eThe city might be in its infancy, but the morning alms round provides an enduring link with the past as monks receive their daily rice hand-out from local women.\u003cbr/\u003eFor the past three years, diggers have been transforming what was once dense jungle into the new capital.\u003cbr/\u003eMinistries, offices, a small airport, bridges and hundreds of apartment blocks have been built. According to government figures it's now home to almost one million people.  \u003cbr/\u003eIn November 2005 thousands of civil servants were told to move immediately from the capital Yangon to their new homes in the administrative capital. \u003cbr/\u003eOvernight, many left wives, husbands and children behind. \u003cbr/\u003eMany of the apartments are still bare inside. In this home there is no bed and no wardrobe so the occupant sleeps in a hammock.\u003cbr/\u003eBut there are three bedrooms and electricity 24 hours a day - a luxury Yangon hasn't known for years. \u003cbr/\u003eNaypyitaw resident Than Than, says she happy. Her flat is a step up from her old home back in Yangon.\u003cbr/\u003eBut away from the television cameras others talk of the downsides of the new city.  \u003cbr/\u003eFood, they say, is very expensive; the weather is terrible; there's no leisure facilities and nothing to do in free time and transport is inadequate meaning many have to sleep at their offices. \u003cbr/\u003eMyint Khin's husband works for the Railway Ministry. She's a new arrival in Naypyitaw and just opened a noodle stand. \u003cbr/\u003eShe says she isn't sure what to expect from her new home. \u003cbr/\u003eZin Linn is a former political prisoner who now works for a group opposed to the military government.  Speaking from the Thai capital Bangkok he says some civil servants have actually fled the country to avoid moving to Naypyitaw. \u003cbr/\u003eThe sensitivity surrounding discussion of Naypyitaw - which means \"Seat of Kings\" - is clear. \u003cbr/\u003eThese labourers praised the city when asked by  foreign journalists.  But minutes later, a secret policeman arrived and quizzed them on what they had been saying. \u003cbr/\u003eSo why was the historic city of Yangon abandoned as capital?\u003cbr/\u003eAt a news conference the Information Minister said the capital should be close to all parts of the country.\u003cbr/\u003eThe military lies at the core of the current Myanmar state.  \u003cbr/\u003eA popular uprising in 1988 was suppressed and a landslide election victory by the National League for Democracy in 1990 was nullified. \u003cbr/\u003eOne analyst believes that's where you must look for the solution to the question of why they moved the capital. \u003cbr/\u003eLarry Jagan believes the government was concerned that civil servants and military personnel were becoming contaminated by the masses in the  capital and being made soft by the increased standard of living there. \u003cbr/\u003eHe says in his opinion moving the capital city is a way of isolating the military so they remain 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