NTT Communications Corporation (NTT) has announced a subsidiary has opened a branch office in Burma to work with local carriers to provide ICT solutions to multinational companies to expand their telecommunications operations.
From all over Shan State, reports have begun to arrive that poppy cultivation is back, as early as August in the south and east, but only recently in the north.
Burma’s President Thein Sein was re-elected as chairman of the ruling state party but he named a fellow reformer Shwe Mann, the speaker of the Lower House of Parliament, to take over the day-to-day running of the party.
The top-level US delegation now in Burma is sending a signal that cooperation between US and Burma’s military can only come if the country makes further progress on human rights issues.
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