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	Myanmar - MSN Encarta
		In 2004, 241,938 tourists visited Myanmar, a substantial increase over the annual number of tourists that visited in the years before the 1988 rebellion.
		Although tourism is Myanmar’s leading source of foreign exchange, the political climate in the country has hindered any efforts to promote tourism there.
		Most of Myanmar’s larger towns and cities are river ports; Yangon and Pegu are near the mouths of the Irrawaddy River, Bassein is on one of the mouths of the Irrawaddy, Mandalay is on the upper Irrawaddy near the branching of the Chindwin River, and Moulmein is located at the mouth of the Salween River.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761574495_6/Myanmar.html (815 words)

	Explore-Myanmar Booking conditions
		Indeed, such is the ruggedness of Myanmar's mountains that two villages of people belonging to the same ethnic group can be so isolated geographically that their language will not be understood by the other after a generation.
		Few foreigners were allowed into Myanmar in the 1980s and some of the photographs were taken while the country was under martial law.
		The few Hmong of Myanmar, like the more numerous Hmong in Laos, have been lured across the Thai border by the scent of easy money and can be found in the night market of Chiang Mai or the streets of Bangkok, selling their crafts.
	www.explore-myanmar.com /TheVanishingTribesOfMyanmar.asp (2487 words)

	History of South East Asia
		The Chakri dynasty in Thailand was in its infancy, recovering from the Burmese destruction of Ayudhya, and the Vietnamese kingdom was torn by rebellion.
		Myanmar was primarily seen by the EIC as a buffer zone.
		Lower Myanmar, that is the alluvial plains which were ethnically Burmese and the heart of the Burmese empires, was ruled directly by the colonial government with the powers of traditional regional and local elites destroyed.
	www.aseanfocus.com /publications/history_myanmar.html (4741 words)

	Travel in Mandalay - Myanmar - Asia - History - WorldTravelGate.net®- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Situated in the heart of Upper Myanmar, the city lies at the hub of river routes from China and India and land routes from the Shan massif and Siam beyond.
		It was the last capital of the Myanmar kingdom and fell to British troops in November 1885.
		As the nation's second largest city, lying at the centre of the country, it is the focus of interior communications and trade routes by rail, road, air, and river steamer.
	www.asiatravelling.net /myanmar/mandalay/mandalay_history.htm (270 words)

	Map Zones : Myanmar Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		For the majority of Myanmar’s population, Buddhism is the center of individual life and the monastery (pongyi kyaung) is the center of the community.
		The population of Myanmar (2001 estimate) is 41,994,678.
		Languages spoken by the Mon of southern Myanmar and by the Wa and Palaung of the Shan Plateau are members of the Mon-Khmer subfamily of the Austro-Asiatic family.
	kids.mapzones.com /world/myanmar (3405 words)

	Freedom of Expression in Myanmar - Amnesty International
		The right to freedom of expression in Myanmar is strictly curtailed by a wide range of legislation which effectively criminalizes freedom of expression, and which penalizes the unauthorized use of communications technology, including telephones, faxes and computers.
		There are at least 1,350 political prisoners in Myanmar, the majority of whom have been sentenced for their peaceful exercise of the right to freedom of expression, association and assembly.
		At his trial he and others were found guilty of trying to communicate with the UN about poor conditions in the prison, and of producing written materials, including magazines, which were considered to be detrimental to the state.
	news.amnesty.org /pages/myanmar (640 words)

	Biographie du Myanmar, une des dernières dictatures militaires au monde - The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Myanmar is located between Bangladesh and Thailand, with China to the north and India to the north-west, with coastline on the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea.
		Myanmar is the second-largest producer of heroin in the world.
		The culture of Myanmar is a mixture of centuries of Chinese, Indian, and Thai influences.
	www.politique-info.org /article-1407820-6.html (2075 words)

	myanmareconomy.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Myanmar has always had a strong forestry industry, and the country is rich in minerals.
		Because of Myanmar’s annually flooded paddy lands and irrigated areas, it is able to remain one of the most important sources of rice in the world.
		Myanmar is one of the world’s leading producer’s of opium, a substance used in the production of the illegal drug heroin, which is mainly exported to the Western nations.
	www.ri.net /schools/East_Greenwich/Cole/myanmareconomy.html (1657 words)

	Strategic Affairs - Analysis
		Myanmar is a key stepping stone in India's new "Look East" policy, which seeks to develop strategic ties with Southeast Asian countries and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, giving India expanded economic, security and political opportunities.
		India is already building a road linking its state of Manipur with Myanmar as an extension of a trans-Asian highway from the Mediterranean ports of West Asia and India, terminating at the Myanmar communication hub of Kalemyo.
		Myanmar is important in the context of insurgency in the north-east.
	www.stratmag.com /issueDec-15/page06.htm (2096 words)

	MapZones.com : Myanmar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Myanmar or Burma, republic in South East Asia, bordered on the north by China; on the east by China, Laos, and Thailand; on the south by the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal; and on the west by the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh, and India.
		The coastal region is known as Lower Myanmar, while the interior region is known as Upper Myanmar.
		Rangoon (Yangon) is the capital and largest city of Myanmar.
	www.mapzones.com /world/asia/myanmar (179 words)

	MYANMAR-CHINA COOPERATION : its implications for India
		The third dimension to this increasing cooperation between China and Myanmar is Pakistan’s active participation in the process with a sinister motive for fomenting trouble in the North Eastern States of India.
		Myanmar has officially confirmed in Jan 2002 that it is building a nuclear reactor.
		Myanmar has a large economic potential which is already being exploited by other Asean nations and India could also reap the benefits of this developing economy.
	www.saag.org /papers6/paper596.html (1582 words)

	Myanmar Country Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Myanmar is striving to improve productivity, increase all round production, develop efficiency in trade and increase its trade volume following the liberalization of its economy and adoption of a market oriented economic system since late 1988.
		Myanmar's policy on foreign investment is an important component of the overall restructuring and development policy of the government.
		Myanmar is undermined by corruption, unprofessional behavior on the part of some legal officials, and blatant interference is some cases by the military government.
	www.hawaii.gov /dbedt/ert/cp/burma.html (3720 words)

	A Fact Sheet: Myanmar and ADB - ADB.org
		Myanmar’s economy is chiefly agro-based, with the sector accounting for more than 40% and employing about 60% of the total labor force.
		Myanmar has a very significant geographical location and has good possibilities of benefiting from the rapidly expanding economies of its neighbors, particularly PRC, India, and Thailand.
		The Myanmar government agency handling ADB affairs is the Ministry of Finance and Revenue.
	www.adb.org /Documents/Fact_Sheets/MYA.asp (1083 words)

	Myanmar MEDIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In 2000 there were an estimated 250,000 mainline telephones in use; internal communication is mainly by wireless.
		A satellite communications station that began operating in 1979 links Myanmar with more than 100 countries.
		As of 1999, there were 2 AM and 3 FM radio stations and 2 television stations.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Asia-and-Oceania/Myanmar-MEDIA.html (259 words)

	Newsletter_3_Feb_2003
		Although the exhibition of the Second Myanmar ICT week was scheduled to be held from 21 to 27 January, the exhibition has been extended till 5 February in response to the wish of large number of interested persons.
		Myanmar welcomes constructive commentary, from the international community, and looks forward to continuing the free and open dialogue with Amnesty International that began with their visit.
		As Myanmar moves towards multi-party democracy, the current government is laying a foundation of peace and stability, and is ensuring that all 10 political parties in Myanmar may act freely and without interference within the framework of the law.
	www.mewashingtondc.com /Newsletter_3_Feb_2003.htm (7752 words)

	MapZones.com : Myanmar Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The history of what is now Myanmar has been made by a succession of peoples who migrated down along the Irrawaddy River from Tibet and China, and who were influenced by social and political institutions that had been carried across the sea from India.
		Myanmar slopes from north to south, from an elevation of 19,296 feet (5,881 metres) at Mount Hkakabo (the country's highest peak) in the extreme north to sea level at the Irrawaddy (Ayeyarwady) and Sittang (Sittoung) river deltas.
		Myanmar was governed according to the provisions of the constitution of 1948 until the coup d’état of 1962, after which the existing form of government was eradicated.
	atlas.mapzones.com /myanmar (2594 words)

	United Nations
		During his last meeting with the Myanmar Home Minister in March 2003, the Special Rapporteur was informed that the SPDC count as of 20 March 2003 was 515 during 2000-2003 (12 in 2000, 105 in 2001, 335 in 2002 and 63 since the beginning of 2003).
		In response to his communications sent to the Myanmar authorities in November and December 2002, the Special Rapporteur received, on 22 January 2003, informal suggestions from the Myanmar Mission in Geneva regarding the possibility of the proposed independent assessment.
		While acknowledging that there are many outside Myanmar who disagree, the Special Rapporteur believes that the credibility of his findings relating to allegations of human rights violations in ethnic areas of Myanmar depends on his ability to establish facts in an objective and impartial manner.
	www.ibiblio.org /obl/docs/GA2003SRM-rep.htm (8749 words)

	Endeavours of the Government of the Union of Myanmar
		The Union of Myanmar located in the Southeast Asian region, is a country that always strives to maintain relations of friendship and cooperation with its neighbours in adherence with the Five Principles of Co-existence of the Bandung Conference.
		Myanmar’s neighbours are China in the north and northeast, India in the northwest, Bangladesh in the west, Thailand in the southeast and east, and Laos in the northeast.
		In the meantime, in 1961, the Myanmar Armed Forces were able to seize the KMT camp at Mong Palio and in so doing three westerners were captured dead along with incriminating evidence in the form of weapons and ammunition.
	www.myanmar-narcotic.net /heroin/article/drug_control.html (1919 words)

	Forced labour in Myanmar (Burma)
		The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall communicate the report of the Commission of Inquiry to the Governing Body and to each of the governments concerned in the complaint, and shall cause it to be published.
		When so inviting the Government of Myanmar, the Director-General should inform it that the Governing Body intended to continue its discussion of this case at its 268th Session, which was to take place in Geneva in March 1997.
		By a letter dated 5 February 1997, the Permanent Mission of the Union of Myanmar in Geneva transmitted the observations of the Government of Myanmar on the complaint and the further supplementary evidence submitted.
	www.geocities.com /absdf_au/reports/myanmar.htm (2352 words)

	Asia Times: Myanmar's generals mean business
		Still, Myanmar's secret police and army officials have been interrogating as many as 100 people implicated in the alleged coup.
		Though Myanmar watchers and foreign journalists outside of Myanmar may not agree with his claim, Yangon-based journalists who have been following the affairs of the first family were convinced about this angle.
		A few days ago, the junta spokesman said, "The UN envoy Mr Razali Ismail has been informed and kindly requested to postpone his visit to Myanmar to a date convenient to both sides in the near future." Clearly, the Myanmar authorities are preoccupied with issues that need immediate attention after the recent coup attempt.
	atimes.com /se-asia/DC21Ae01.html (1239 words)

	Myanmar - Burma travel trips information
		Myanmar (or Burma) is located in south-east Asia.
		Economically Myanmar is a poor country, and agriculture remains the main sector.
		Travel is sometime unpredictable because the essential infrastructures such as efficient good management, transport, communication and hotels are still far from near complete.
	www.trekthailand.net /myanmar/index.html (1362 words)

	Greater Mekong Subregion - Project Profiles - ADB.org
		If the prices are reduced in line with costs, then communications would be available to low-income groups, which would improve their quality of life by stimulating economic and social activity and providing greater access to services.
		Good, effective communications are now essential to the efficient operation of developed economies to increase the efficiencies possible in other sectors of the economy.
		The estimated route length is 1,380 km-1,320 km in Myanmar and 60 km in Thailand.
	www.adb.org /GMS/pp_tc5.asp (867 words)

	JURIST - Myanmar [Burmese] Law
		Burma [officially renamed Myanmar in 1989] is ruled by a highly authoritarian military regime.
		The court system, as inherited from the United Kingdom and subsequently restructured, includes courts at the township, district, state, and national levels.
		During the year, persons suspected of or charged with prodemocratic political activity were subjected to regular surveillance and harassment.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /world/myanmar.htm (1338 words)

	Tour East Travel - Trips to Myanmar
		Myanmar has a lot of places to go and many a thousand things to see and enjoy.
		It is true that the communications and other facilities plus some other things in the country need improvements and changes.
		After all Myanmar is probably the only place in Asia where you can still see the traditional living style of the far east ; and where you can still feel the sound of bells atop a pagoda at a tranquil night.
	toureast.8k.com (303 words)

	Economy - Myanmar (formerly Burma) - Asia
		After the war, the area of land devoted to agriculture slowly recovered, but as the population grew the surplus available for export never reached the earlier level.
		By the end of the 1994-1995 fiscal year, after several years of significant growth, the levels of gross domestic product (GDP), agricultural output, consumption, and investment in Myanmar were about one-tenth higher than they had been in 1985-1986, the best year before the military coup d’etat and political unrest of 1988.
		In 1997 the United States imposed strong economic sanctions on Myanmar to express disapproval of the military government’s human rights record.
	www.countriesquest.com /asia/myanmar_formerly_burma/economy.htm (303 words)

	MODiNS [ Myanmar Online Information ]
		Communication services are vital in the management, economy and social affairs of the State.
		Myanmar DHL Limited, joint venture of Myanmar Communication Service and DHL World-wide Express B.V of Netherlands was contracted and set up on September 23, 1996 and International Package Service is being carried out between Yangon and 227 foreign countries.
		For the convenient communications in far-flung towns in Myanmar Naing-Ngan, Local Satellite Communication System was built in 1991, and ground stations are constructed and used in Haka, Myitkyina, Bhamo, Muse, Lashio, Tachileik, Kyaingtone, Kalaw, Khamti, Tamu, Yangon, Buthitaung, Myawady, Myeik and Kawthaung.
	www.modins.net /myanmarinfo/telecomm/communication.htm (836 words)

	News Archive - Myanmar
		But this is Myanmar, one of the poorest countries in the world and most people here live on very little.
		On the 6th of May, Daw Aung San Su Kyi, Myanmar's leading opposition leader was released from her most recent stay of house arrest, lasting nineteen months.
		Aung San Su Kyi is Myanmar's most prominent opposition leader, who's party, the National League for Democracy, won a landslide victory back in 1990, which the regime never honoured.
	www.wvi.org /wvi/archives/asia/myanmar.htm (1237 words)

	MYANMAR
		Myanmar was a co-founder of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).
		Myanmar is a beneficiary of training programmes under ITEC, TCS of Colombo Plan and GCSS of ICCR.
		Myanmar attended the Sixth Ministerial Meeting of BIMST-EC held in Phuket, Thailand and is a signatory to FTA.
	meaindia.nic.in /foreignrelation/myanmar.htm (2236 words)

	MyMyanmar, Myanmar Unicode Downloads
		Myanmar language for mobile communications introduced Will be put into service by end of 2006 Myanmar language to be used on mobile communication systems has been successfully developed by a student of the University of Computer Studies, and the system was introduced at the First Computer Software Exhibition being held at Mandalay Info-Tech in Mandalay.
		In addition, MySM is capable of using Myanmar and English words in combination.
		Thus, Myanmar text can be sent as SMS from a computer through a mobile phone connected to it.
	www.mymyanmar.net /newsread.php?id=13 (425 words)

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