BKK Post, March 5,1998. Colleges cl

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Colleges closed , but students ready
  

Rangoon-   Nearly 400,000 Burmese high school students began taking university entrance exams this week, although most of the country's universities have been closed
for the past 16 months to prevent unrest, and no one knows when they will reopen.
   Theses students are in addition to 200,000 others who were pushed out of more than 30 universities and colleges closed in December 1996 after a series of anti-government protests.
    The ruling military junta's Secretary One, Lieutenant- General Khin Nyunt, last week said the government was planning to reopen the campuses.--- Reuters