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		<title>The Atlantic: Hope, anxiety, and life in a changing Burma – Sebastian Strangio</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/31/the-atlantic-hope-anxiety-and-life-in-a-changing-burma-%e2%80%93-sebastian-strangio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naypyidaw, Burma &#8212; This &#8220;city of magnificent distances&#8221; sprawls on a pancake-flat plain four hours north of Burma&#8217;s largest city and former capital, Rangoon. On November 6, 2005, at a time apparently chosen by astrologers, Naypyidaw became the country&#8217;s new capital, and the first convoy of government workers was dispatched up the highway to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mizzima News: Sanctions are not cause of economic problems &#8211; Nyein Chan Aye</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/31/mizzima-news-sanctions-are-not-cause-of-economic-problems-nyein-chan-aye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nowadays the Burmese “sanctions” question is a hot topic. I have neither opposed nor supported Western sanctions because I believe it’s not the main reason for the problems of our motherland, including the bad economy. According to Aung San Suu Kyi, the Western targeted sanctions mainly affect the regime and its cronies and it makes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Business Times Singapore: Long haul for Myanmar to normalcy &#8211; Editorial</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/31/the-business-times-singapore-long-haul-for-myanmar-to-normalcy-editorial/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/31/the-business-times-singapore-long-haul-for-myanmar-to-normalcy-editorial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IN the last 10 months since its new civilian government came to power, Myanmar has impressed the world with its remarkable efforts to re-engage the international community after five decades under military rule. The regime in Myanmar has freed scores of high-profile political prisoners including Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, opened peace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Australian: At last, there may be reason for optimism in Burma – Kevin Rudd and William Hague</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/30/the-australian-at-last-there-may-be-reason-for-optimism-in-burma-%e2%80%93-kevin-rudd-and-william-hague/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/30/the-australian-at-last-there-may-be-reason-for-optimism-in-burma-%e2%80%93-kevin-rudd-and-william-hague/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We must be ready to help the government if it tries to deliver its citizens a better future FOR much of the past 50 years only a true optimist would have believed there were prospects for real change in Burma. For all that time the people of Burma have suffered repression.Burma&#8217;s former military regime appeared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Republic: The awakening – Emma Larkin</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/30/the-new-republic-the-awakening-%e2%80%93-emma-larkin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/30/the-new-republic-the-awakening-%e2%80%93-emma-larkin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ONE EVENING RECENTLY in Rangoon, my friend Ko Ye (not his real name) arrived at the apartment where I was staying, brandishing the latest issue of the weekly newspaper he runs. It was, he announced with great fanfare, a landmark edition: For the first time ever, government censors had allowed him to run a photo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nation (Thailand): Burma&#8217;s transformation: Many challenges still lie ahead – Kyaw San Wai</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/27/the-nation-thailand-burmas-transformation-many-challenges-still-lie-ahead-%e2%80%93-kyaw-san-wai/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/27/the-nation-thailand-burmas-transformation-many-challenges-still-lie-ahead-%e2%80%93-kyaw-san-wai/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent release of many high-profile political prisoners by the Burmese government has been hailed as a firm step on the country&#8217;s path towards democracy.While the effects of many reforms have not yet trickled down tangibly to the masses and remain largely confined to major cities and Burmese-majority areas, noticeable changes have undeniably occurred. Initial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reuters: Analysis: Myanmar shows little sign of economic miracle</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/25/reuters-analysis-myanmar-shows-little-sign-of-economic-miracle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/25/reuters-analysis-myanmar-shows-little-sign-of-economic-miracle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yangon – Business is booming at the Golden Sea employment agency in downtown Yangon, but that doesn&#8217;t mean Myanmar&#8217;s long-stagnant economy is improving. Quite the opposite.&#8220;Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand,&#8221; said manager Kyaw Thura, listing the countries where he helps the young men crowding his one-room office find jobs as laborers and cooks. &#8220;If there were opportunities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Irrawaddy: A monk on a political mission of mercy – BJ Stuart</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/25/the-irrawaddy-a-monk-on-a-political-mission-of-mercy-%e2%80%93-bj-stuart/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/25/the-irrawaddy-a-monk-on-a-political-mission-of-mercy-%e2%80%93-bj-stuart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rangoon—On the road to Mandalay, the Burmese military intelligence men and their thugs kicked him, beat him, put a hood over his head and threw him into a waiting truck. After several weeks in hiding disguised as a layman, U Sandawbartha—the Buddhist monk more famously know as U Gambira, one of the leading figures of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Policy: Burma: The war that won&#8217;t stop – Min Zin</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/24/foreign-policy-burma-the-war-that-wont-stop-%e2%80%93-min-zin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/24/foreign-policy-burma-the-war-that-wont-stop-%e2%80%93-min-zin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I write this, Burmese government troops are still staging attacks on the Kachin ethnic rebel group &#8211; even as the two sides have been trying to conduct negotiations in the Chinese city of Ruili, just over the border. The new Burmese president Thein Sein, an ex-general, has publicly ordered the army to stop its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Times (UK): Rush to reform Myanmar creates ‘Burma burn-out’ – Gwen Robinson</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/24/financial-times-uk-rush-to-reform-myanmar-creates-%e2%80%98burma-burn-out%e2%80%99-%e2%80%93-gwen-robinson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/24/financial-times-uk-rush-to-reform-myanmar-creates-%e2%80%98burma-burn-out%e2%80%99-%e2%80%93-gwen-robinson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Myanmar’s rapid reform programme propels it from pariah to emerging market status, a new phrase has cropped up in conversations in tea shops in the city of Yangon: “Burma burn-out”.The phrase is used, only half-jokingly, by diplomats and expatriates to describe how the recent explosion of reformist fervour is stretching the government’s painfully limited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Canberra Times (Australia): Will N Korea follow Burma? – William Pesek</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/24/the-canberra-times-australia-will-n-korea-follow-burma-%e2%80%93-william-pesek/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/24/the-canberra-times-australia-will-n-korea-follow-burma-%e2%80%93-william-pesek/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the many tantalising questions surrounding Burma&#8217;s flirtation with democracy is this: might Kim Jong-un be enticed to try something similar in North Korea?At least 2million people starved during the 17-year reign of his father, Kim Jong-il, and North Korea&#8217;s economy is a disaster area. Enter Burma, the runner-up to North Korea as Asia&#8217;s worst [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Economist: Change in Myanmar Follow my lead</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/20/the-economist-change-in-myanmar-follow-my-lead/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/20/the-economist-change-in-myanmar-follow-my-lead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government moves, and gets its rewards Singapore &#8211; A LULL in Myanmar followed the excitement of secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s historic visit to the country in early December, the first by a senior American official in half a century. Perhaps, some even wondered, this was the point at which the reform process initiated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Policy: Burma: Movement on Sanctions &#8211; Min Zin</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/19/foreign-policy-burma-movement-on-sanctions-min-zin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/19/foreign-policy-burma-movement-on-sanctions-min-zin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[McConnell, the Senate&#8217;s leading Republican, called it &#8220;an emotional moment,&#8221; and said that both of them had probably thought &#8220;that we were never going to meet.&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s an incredible day,&#8221; he continued. McConnell, who has long been one of the biggest supporters of Burmese democracy movement, also welcomed president Obama&#8217;s decision to restore full diplomatic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Policy: The last Kim of Pyongyang? &#8211; Daniel M. Kliman</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/19/foreign-policy-the-last-kim-of-pyongyang-daniel-m-kliman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/19/foreign-policy-the-last-kim-of-pyongyang-daniel-m-kliman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not ridiculous to think that North Korea could take a page from Myanmar and make a shocking U-turn toward democracy. For more than two decades, Myanmar was a pariah state ruled by military generals that suppressed political dissent, straitjacketed the media, persecuted ethnic minorities, and &#8212; despite resource riches &#8212; failed to improve its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Committee to Protect Journalists Blog: Freedom with limits in Burma &#8211; Shawn W. Crispin/Senior Southeast Asia Representative</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/19/committee-to-protect-journalists-blog-freedom-with-limits-in-burma-shawn-w-crispinsenior-southeast-asia-representative/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When President Thein Sein pardoned over 300 political prisoners last week in Burma, CPJ reported that at least nine journalists were among those released. Since then, the exile-run Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) has announced that all of its jailed reporters, including a group of eight who had remained anonymous, are now free. Thirteen DVB [...]]]></description>
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