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China needed for Burma’s reforms: Shwe Mann
Before his official visit to China on Tuesday, the Speaker of the Union Parliament, Shwe Mann, said China’s help and investment is essential for Burma’s reform process.
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Tackle impunity, discrimination in Burma: Quintana
Burma’s nascent democracy faces immense challenges in coming years, some with the capacity to “jeopardise” progress made since the country’s transition from military dictatorship to quasi-civilian leadership in 2011, a UN official concluded.
Is Burma on the right path to reform?
Several politicians and civic society leaders weigh in on President Thein Sein’s comments this weekend when he told a forum of businessmen in Rangoon that Burma’s process of reform was on the “right path”.
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Promises for a ‘new Burma’ echo past dictators
Talk of reform by Burma’s president is nothing new. Instead Thein Sein is deploying tactics used so frequently by Than Shwe and Ne Win
