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Burma’s Fastest Growing Business: Drugs

Drug-driven economy? Who will invest in such an illicit economy? Incomes derived from opium, heroin and methamphetamine can be laundered without difficulty through investment in legitimate businesses. Who can compete with them? No serious local or foreign investors will come if the drug barons and their offspring are rubbing shoulders with the law-enforcement officials and their cohorts.

Most pathetic of all is the growing numbers of drug addicts among our young people. At a time when we need the participation of 30-40 percent of our population in national reformation and economic transformation, we cannot afford to waste vital human resources. All law-enforcements agencies must mobilize to control and eradicate this scourge of our society.

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Burmese Muslims Cancel Eid Festivities

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The way that many self-styled intellectuals shift so easily from intolerance of “illegals”/Bengali to talk of “resisting Islamization” is saddening, especially for a nation which has been a torchbearer for human rights and principled resistance. A similar belligerence towards Muslims arose in the USA after 9/11, and again there was an ease with which this went from “only those who hate us, some of whom happen to be Muslims” to “all Muslims are a potential threat”—but this was restricted to right-wing idiots and racists.

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Price of Cars to Continue Falling, Says Minister

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Land Battles Surface in Burma as Reforms Unfold

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