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Burmese school teacher Aung Pee, 56, powers down a Burmese road on his solar battery powered bicycle as he makes the 38 kms journey to teach his school class, in Twortay township, south of Yangon, Myanmar. In Myanmar, where fuel prices are spiraling way above the pockets of the Burmese, most must ride crowded public buses and trucks. A few trishaws remain and bicycles are a perennial favorite in a country hampered by energy shortages, with one of the more ingenious experimenting with solar power to avoid the cost and shortages of fuel.

