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| Author: | Gluckman, R. |
| Title: | Down and up in Myanmar |
| Journal: | Asiaweek
1996 : AUG 2, VOL. 22:31, p. 26-33 |
| Index terms: | ECONOMICS POLITICS ASIA |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Frustrated with both SLORC and Aung San Suu Kyi, people say what they really want is to get in on Asia's economic boom. A horrendous howling echoes down the hillside from Shwedagon Pagoda, most sacred of all Buddhist shrines in Myanmar. Myanmar's mistification with a moving stairway is typical of any land exposed to new technology. In many ways, it is an apt metaphor for the direction of this formerly isolated socialist state. Clearly Myanmar is moving forward , but that raises the question: what happens at the other end? |
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