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Kudos to president for signing the law; if we want to attract more investments than our Southeast Asian neighbours, we need to be more welcoming, not restrictive.

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others without any reasonable grounds and hope that something will stick. Even
though he was accusing the world-renowned Nobel Laureate of being corrupt just because she changed her stance regarding economic sanctions, he himself agreed to become a member of U Thein Sein’s delegation to the United Nations General Assembly at the same time.

Citizens of Burma are expecting that there would be a fruitful outcome from this cooperation. Now they should be concerned about his dubious intentions.

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A true leader will continue to speak in the interests of the people who are still being oppressed if she or he wants to maintain a great legacy. Obviously, the condition of ethnic people in Burma/Myanmar has still not improved, especially in Kachin State. War crimes are still being committed by the military.

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a perfect fool. The former involves no disaster to the state. The latter is a
source of positive danger to it.

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