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Burma: A Model Democrat

Aung San Suu Kyi is the dissident tailor-made for Western luvvies

Formula for excess
Singapore’s free-wheeling private bankers enjoyed the ride of their lives in the pre-crisis years, but with government intervention and a clutch of lawsuits looming, it looks as though many are finally running out of road

Web of cash, power and cronies

Singapore isn't just skilled at mandatory executions of drug traffickers, running an excellent airport and selling cameras on Orchard Road.

It also does a useful trade keeping Burma's military rulers and their cronies afloat

Monks’ Prayers

"We have your pictures, and we are going to come and get you.”

 

Taste of the unknown

The Mergui Archipelago is an elusive paradise

Diplomatic score: The UN's man in Myanmar has business interests there too

Hit-and-run scapegoats in Burma

Why take the rap when you kill someone if you can pay someone else to take it for you?

Consumer Stirring Visible in Burma, Foreigners are Flocking in

Rangoon

The coffee and samosas are improving at the Rangoon People's Patisserie. In most other countries that would not be particularly remarkablea it means that times are changing

A Corrupt Corner of the Raj aims to pounce as Asia's new tiger

Rangoon

Foreign businessmen who have flocked to Vietnam and China in recent years are now packing the few flights to Burma's capital, Rangoon, seeking ground-floor positions in a former corner of the Raj where a day's labour costs only one US dollar.

A Rare Bird Blazes Trail for Australia in Rangoon

Rangoon

IT'S A long way from rural Edenhope in Victoria's Western District to a Bolshevik-built warehouse on Rangoon's Bo Aung Gyaw Street, but Neil Bird seems to be handling the transition with aplomb.

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