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Obama makes history with Myanmar, Cambodia visits

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President Barack Obama tours the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday. In a historic trip to a long-shunned land, Obama showered praise and promises of more U.S. help to Myanmar if the Asian nation keeps building its new democracy.

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On a history-making trip, President Barack Obama on Monday paid the first visit by an American leader to Myanmar and Cambodia, two Asian countries with troubled histories, one on the mend and the other still a cause of concern.