Myanmar activists warily test new right to protest

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In this photo taken Jan. 28, 2012, a man walks on a road to the Myanmar Dawei Deep Sea Port project site in Nabule township in Dawei, about 615 kilometers (380 miles) south of Yangon, Myanmar. When 200 activists in green T-Shirts marched along a pristine Myanmar beach to protest plans for a coal plant in the mass seaport project, they expected a long, tough struggle against the powers that be. A deputy Cabinet minister asked for a meeting. He listened patiently to their concerns about pollution. And then he told them the government agreed: It would halt construction of the controversial 4,000-megawatt plant on Myanmar's southern panhandle.

Khin Maung Win, Associated Press