Tag: Burmese language

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Full Steam Ahead: The Burma Boom

Khin Yu Waddy Myint is manager at Pyrex Trading and Distribution, a Burmese pharmaceutical company that employs 250 people across the country. Part of her job is to source and import medicines from India and Australia, a task she concedes she doesn’t know enough about. “It is the first time for me to learn many […]

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Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi Begins US visit

Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar‘s pro-democracy leader, is travelling to the US  for the first time since she  was put under house arrest in 1990 to receive the highest civilian honour in the US. The Nobel laureate, who begins her 18-day tour of the US on Monday, will be presented the Congressional Gold Medal and meet various […]

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