Concern for Burma (Myanmar)

Burmese movement to start true dialogue with NLD Daw Aung Sann Suu Kyi for democratic reform
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Thursday , April 12 , 2012

New Myanmar Kyat & Myanmar Stock Exchange

Posted by witmone.singapore , Reader : 221 , 22:24:20

Central Bank of Myanmar CBM announced today 01-Apr-2012 US$1.00=Kyat 818 as floating exchange rate. Almost 50 years fixed rate of US$1.00=Kyat 6.30 is disappeared. Congratulation! to new reformed Burmese government. After decades of economic isolation, the economy of Burma (also known as Myanmar) is badly in need of reforms than can better promote development. Exchange rate is special ....

Central Bank of Myanmar CBM announced today 01-Apr-2012 US$1.00=Kyat 818 as floating exchange rate. Almost 50 years fixed rate of US$1.00=Kyat 6.30 is disappeared. Congratulation! to new reformed Burmese government. After decades of economic isolation, the economy of Burma (also known as Myanmar) is badly in need of reforms than can better promote development. Exchange rate is special ....

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Monday , April 2 , 2012

Thein Sein: the gentle general behind Suu Kyi’s triumph

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Aung San Suu Kyi and NLD Head Quarter at b--election win night view (01-Apr-2012)by FP Staff Apr 2, 2012 Once deemed a puppet leader, President of Myanmar Thein Sein, can today perhaps take some credit for negotiating democratic leader Aung Sung Suu Kyi’s return to politics and ensuring that a free poll allowed the National League for Democracy to romp to victory. A graduate of the ....

Aung San Suu Kyi and NLD Head Quarter at b--election win night view (01-Apr-2012)by FP Staff Apr 2, 2012 Once deemed a puppet leader, President of Myanmar Thein Sein, can today perhaps take some credit for negotiating democratic leader Aung Sung Suu Kyi’s return to politics and ensuring that a free poll allowed the National League for Democracy to romp to victory. A graduate of the ....

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Sunday , December 25 , 2011

Burma's Zarganar

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Burma's famous dissident comedian, who said he had survived "electronic shock" torture during eight years in prison, has been allowed out of his Southeast Asian country for the first time. He is traveling to the Clinton Foundation in America -- while requesting that US economic sanctions on Burma be lifted. The satirical Maung Thura is popularly known by his stage name Zarganar --....

Burma's famous dissident comedian, who said he had survived "electronic shock" torture during eight years in prison, has been allowed out of his Southeast Asian country for the first time. He is traveling to the Clinton Foundation in America -- while requesting that US economic sanctions on Burma be lifted. The satirical Maung Thura is popularly known by his stage name Zarganar --....

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Friday , December 16 , 2011

An Opening in Burma? Review books of Historian Thant Myint-U

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Burma has been, for many outsiders, a forgotten place, a land where little ever changes. Western guidebooks enthuse about the fact that, alone in East Asia, Burmese still wear traditional dress—longyi sarongs—and women wear thanaka, a chalky paste made from bark and applied to the face as a natural sunscreen. Visitors from neighboring nations see in Burma vestiges of the s....

Burma has been, for many outsiders, a forgotten place, a land where little ever changes. Western guidebooks enthuse about the fact that, alone in East Asia, Burmese still wear traditional dress—longyi sarongs—and women wear thanaka, a chalky paste made from bark and applied to the face as a natural sunscreen. Visitors from neighboring nations see in Burma vestiges of the s....

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Monday , November 28 , 2011

Burma: Can Daw Suu trust the Army? - by Hla Oo

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(This Gwynne Dyer’s article is from London Free Press Comment Section.) Daw Suu meets the President. Burma is the second poorest country in Asia (after North Korea), although fifty years ago it was the second richest. It is the second most repressive dictatorship in Asia, outdone again only by North Korea. It is third from the bottom on Transparency International's list of the wor....

(This Gwynne Dyer’s article is from London Free Press Comment Section.) Daw Suu meets the President. Burma is the second poorest country in Asia (after North Korea), although fifty years ago it was the second richest. It is the second most repressive dictatorship in Asia, outdone again only by North Korea. It is third from the bottom on Transparency International's list of the wor....

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