Comments on: Doing Business with Myanmar http://www.groundviews.org/2007/08/31/doing-business-with-myanmar/ groundviews is an award winning Sri Lankan citizen journalism initiative Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:22:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Sri Lanka » Blog Archives » Outotec to Deliver a US$100 Million Water Treatment Facility to ... http://www.groundviews.org/2007/08/31/doing-business-with-myanmar/#comment-1143 Sri Lanka » Blog Archives » Outotec to Deliver a US$100 Million Water Treatment Facility to ... Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:47:29 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/08/31/doing-business-with-myanmar/#comment-1143 [...] Doing Business with MyanmarThe Daily Mirror on 29 August 2007 reports a high-level meeting at Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) between state and business leaders of Sri Lanka and a state delegation representing trade interests in Myanmar. … [...] [...] Doing Business with MyanmarThe Daily Mirror on 29 August 2007 reports a high-level meeting at Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) between state and business leaders of Sri Lanka and a state delegation representing trade interests in Myanmar. … [...]

]]> By: groundviews http://www.groundviews.org/2007/08/31/doing-business-with-myanmar/#comment-1142 groundviews Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:59:23 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/08/31/doing-business-with-myanmar/#comment-1142 An interesting discussion on this article appears on the DefenceWire blog - http://defencewire.blogspot.com/2007/09/business-in-burma-and-western-lackeys.html. An interesting discussion on this article appears on the DefenceWire blog - http://defencewire.blogspot.com/2007/09/business-in-burma-and-western-lackeys.html.

]]> By: groundviews » The heroine of democracy and the monks revolution http://www.groundviews.org/2007/08/31/doing-business-with-myanmar/#comment-1141 groundviews » The heroine of democracy and the monks revolution Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:55:28 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/08/31/doing-business-with-myanmar/#comment-1141 [...] I examine the history of the democratic struggle in Myanmar and begin my article with a statement by Aung San Suu Kyi speaking at the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing 1995. I note that her house arrest is a damning indicator of the junta’s intolerance of democracy. As another author on Groundviews notes: Seventeen years since elections, the elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who has since been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, is still under house arrest; millions of men, women and children are in forced labour; one and a half million people are internally displaced; over one thousand are held as political prisoners, many still being routinely tortured; the universities have been closed for most of the last decade to prevent protests; spending on health care is amongst the lowest in the world; 60% of the people are in poverty, even though the GDP per capita is about fifty percent greater than that of Sri Lanka; and the Junta along with their cronies has a stranglehold on wealth and power, feeding themselves through tourism, partnership with foreign businesses, and the sale of natural resources. [...] [...] I examine the history of the democratic struggle in Myanmar and begin my article with a statement by Aung San Suu Kyi speaking at the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing 1995. I note that her house arrest is a damning indicator of the junta’s intolerance of democracy. As another author on Groundviews notes: Seventeen years since elections, the elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who has since been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, is still under house arrest; millions of men, women and children are in forced labour; one and a half million people are internally displaced; over one thousand are held as political prisoners, many still being routinely tortured; the universities have been closed for most of the last decade to prevent protests; spending on health care is amongst the lowest in the world; 60% of the people are in poverty, even though the GDP per capita is about fifty percent greater than that of Sri Lanka; and the Junta along with their cronies has a stranglehold on wealth and power, feeding themselves through tourism, partnership with foreign businesses, and the sale of natural resources. [...]

]]> By: Nishan http://www.groundviews.org/2007/08/31/doing-business-with-myanmar/#comment-1140 Nishan Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:20:02 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/08/31/doing-business-with-myanmar/#comment-1140 Myanmar's APRC process makes the Sri Lankan one look promising by comparison: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6975631.stm Yet, in that and other ways, events in Sri Lanka seem not entirely different: http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?id=7359732 Myanmar’s APRC process makes the Sri Lankan one look promising by comparison:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6975631.stm

Yet, in that and other ways, events in Sri Lanka seem not entirely different:
http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?id=7359732

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