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No clean bill of health yet for Burma’s anti-money laundering drive – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/business/clean-bill-health-yet-burmas-anti-money-laundering-drive.html RANGOON — Burma looks set to get a new law to counter money laundering soon, but the country...

Naypyidawdling – The Irrawaddy/RTÉ World Report

Published in The Irrawaddy print magazine, December edition, out Dec. 1 2013 http://www.rte.ie/news/player/world-report/2013/1201/ – radio version here. Broadcast...

Security in, spitting out for SEA Games – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/burma/security-spitting-sea-games.html NAYPYIDAW — At the entrance to the new Wunna Theikdi sports complex in Naypyidaw, an array of soldiers...

Shwe Mann, Suu Kyi seek to reassure journalists over media laws – The Irrawaddy

www.irrawaddy.org/archives/42016 RANGOON – In meetings with Burma’s interim Press Council, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Parliament Speaker...

Pun gives rivals a run for their money – The Irrawaddy

In August 2013 print edition http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/42299 YANGON – As founder of Myanmar’s only listed business and head of a commercial...

Advertisers in Burma ‘can’t bill It as a gold rush’ – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/36947 Much coverage of Burma’s “frontier market” has focused on sectors such as natural resources, telecommunications and manufacturing. Some...

Burma’s house speaker Shwe Mann airs Presidential ambitions – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/36842 NAYPYIDAW — Burma’s Lower House Speaker Shwe Mann told The Irrawaddy on Friday that he is interested in...

Burma’s tech sector not ready for start-up funding: Intel – The Irrawaddy: Intel – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/36765 NAYPYIDAW — Burma’s small but growing coterie of tech entrepreneurs will likely have to wait some time before...

Burma’s energy resources to be used for domestic needs in future, says minister – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/36665 NAYPYIDAW — Speaking at the World Economic Forum (WEF) gathering in the Burmese capital on Thursday morning, Deputy...

Gas revenues fund Burma nuke programme – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=18876 Billions of dollars in gas revenues have been siphoned away by the Burmese military junta and are helping...