Investors in Myanmar
It may be a familiar thing by now on this blog: once again I am preparing to speak at an event, this time about the Rohingya exodus from Myanmar, and I am putting together some notes to share (relatively briefly this time) before I head off to do this. For a reminder, this ( see map ) is the part of the world we are talking about. No offense meant by including that map above. You may know more about Myanmar than me. But even as a non-Myanmar-specialist I will risk saying that in general people in the West know very little about the place. Many are not really sure if Myanmar should be Burma rather, because everyone heard of the military junta (so who knows if using one or the other name in reference to the country is appropriate or not). Many may have heard that there was some kind of "democratic" change but in pictures appearing in the media about the country generals in military uniform and military uniforms in general still proliferate. And there are those names for th...