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Subject: Reuters-Thousands join queue for closed Myanmar colleges 

Thousands join queue for closed Myanmar colleges
08:16 a.m. Jul 26, 1999 Eastern
YANGON, July 26 (Reuters) - More than 100,000 students have passed the
latest university entrance test in Myanmar but instead of starting their
studies will join 300,000 others waiting for the military government to
reopen campuses closed in 1996.

Results published on Sunday showed 112,722 students of 399,318 who sat the
exams in March passed.

They will join the 300,000 students who passed in 1996, 1997 and 1998 and
have been waiting for colleges to reopen so they can start their courses.

About 30 universities and colleges nationwide have been closed since early
December 1996 after anti-government protests in some big cities.

The protests were the largest seen in Myanmar since a student-led
pro-democracy uprising in 1988 that was crushed by the military.

Classes for masters degree courses and some post and undergraduate diploma
courses have restarted but regular degree courses remain suspended except at
institutes under the Ministry of Health.

No official was available to comment on the reopening of the remaining
universities.