May 6, 2012

U.S. Policy Options Toward Myanmar ^Reply

by Leopard Capital • Myanmar (Burma) News • Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Brookers Institute, by-elections, Council on Foreign Relations, EU, European Union, Hillary Clinton, Myanmar, sanctions, US policy

Yangon, Myanmar

Reposted from The Council on Foreign Relations

Speakers: Joshua Kurlantzick, Fellow for Southeast Asia, Council on Foreign Relations, and Lex Rieffel, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution
Presider: Romesh Ratnesar, Deputy Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek

ROMESH RATNESAR: OK. Good afternoon. Welcome to the Council on Foreign Relations. I am Romesh Ratnesar from Bloomberg Businessweek magazine, and I’m pleased to be presiding over today’s meeting on U.S. policy options toward Myanmar. More…

May 1, 2012

Myanmar Monthly Wrap-up: April ^Reply

by Leopard Capital • Myanmar (Burma) News • Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Ban Ki-moon, by-elections, constitution, Myanmar, oath, Thein Sein, UN, United Nations

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon with President Thein Sein

By John Conway Boyd

Following Myanmar’s groundbreaking 1 April by-elections that saw 43 members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) win seat in parliament, including long-time democratic champion Aung San Suu Kyi, a political dispute looms while countries continue to ease economic sanctions. More…

April 30, 2012

Myanmar, the darling of the commentators: Can the change be maintained? ^Reply

by Leopard Capital • Myanmar (Burma) News • Tags: by-elections, Currency, economy, float, GDP, kyat, Myanmar, National League for Democracy, NLD, stock exchange

Reposted from AFG Venture Group Dispatches

There has been an increasing amount of column inches devoted to the changes which have occurred in Myanmar, and as one who has had a commercial contact with the country since 1994 when we opened our first office in Yangon, and in 1998 when we first produced the Myanmar Business Guide, the changes which have occurred over the last several years are certainly worthy of comment. More…

April 4, 2012

Suu Kyi Win Risks Myanmar Backlash Without Economic Gains ^Reply

by Leopard Capital • Myanmar (Burma) News • Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, by-elections, Myanmar, National League for Democracy, NLD, parliamentary elections, President Thein Sein

Aung San Suu Kyi Political Poster

Reposted from Bloomberg
By Daniel Ten Kate

Myanmar dissident Aung San Suu Kyi’s sweeping by-election win risks invigorating hardliners opposed to change if she fails to join reformers in implementing policies that boost incomes in one of Asia’s poorest countries.

Suu Kyi yesterday called for a “new era” after her National League for Democracy rejoined the political system and claimed victory in 43 of 44 seats it contested in April 1 by- elections. It boycotted a 2010 election won by President Thein Sein’s army-backed party, which along with the military still controls more than 80 percent of parliamentary seats. More…

March 30, 2012

March Monthly Wrap-up: Myanmar ^Reply

by Leopard Capital • Myanmar (Burma) News • Tags: by-elections, float currency, foreing investment, foreing investment bill, Hillary Clinton, kyat, Myanmar, sanctions, William Hague

Bagon, Myanmar

By John Conway Boyd

Political and economic developments in Myanmar are moving at an accelerated pace. Following recent democratization measures and visits from high-level foreign officials, including US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and British Foreign Ministry William Hague, Myanmar has taken strong measures to court foreign investors and integrate itself within the international community. More…

March 30, 2012

Myanmar Economy Is Poised to Take Flight ^Reply

by Leopard Capital • Myanmar (Burma) News • Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, by-elections, China, General Electric, India, Myanmar, National League for Democracy, NLD, President Thein Sein, sanctions, Standard Chartered, US, Yangon

National League for Democracy political T-shirt

Reposted from Businessweek
By Daniel Ten Kate

Myanmar next week holds the most inclusive elections since the military rejected an opposition victory in 1990, as the potential for economic ties with western nations encourages the leadership to relax control.

By-elections for 43 of the national legislature’s 664 seats will be held April 1, filling posts vacated by lawmakers who joined President Thein Sein’s government. The main opposition group, led by dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, is contesting seats for the first time since the 1990 turmoil. More…

March 28, 2012

Myanmar Briefing Note No. 23 28 March 2012 Myanmar By-elections: Into the Unknown ^Reply

by Leopard Capital • Myanmar (Burma) News • Tags: Aung Sun Suii Kyi, by-elections, Myanmar, National League for Deomocracy, NLD, President Thein Sein, Rangoon, Union Solidarity and Development Party, USPD, Yangon

Bagon, Myanmar

Repost from Network Myanmar
By Derek Tonkin

The 45 by-elections to be held in Myanmar on 1 April 2012, including 37 to the Lower House, 6 to the Upper House and 2 to Regional Assemblies, occasioned by ministerial-level appointments to the Executive, are being contested by 17 political parties and 7 independent candidates. More…

March 26, 2012

Myanmar Briefing Note No. 22 23 March 2012 The Art of Self-Deception: The EU and Sanctions ^Reply

by Leopard Capital • Myanmar (Burma) News • Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, by-elections, Derek Mitchell, Joseph Stiglitz, Myanmar, sanctions, Thein Sein, Vijay Nambiar

Reposted from Network Myanmar
By Derek Tonkin

“To those who ask whether or not sanctions have been effective, I would answer ‘Yes’ – very, very confidently because this government is always asking for sanctions to be removed…..”
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in a video conference with Carleton University in Ottawa on 29 February 2012 More…

March 23, 2012

Myanmar Invites Nations to Observe By-Elections ^Reply

by Leopard Capital • Myanmar (Burma) News • Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, by-elections, elections monitors, Myanmar, Thein Sein, Washington

Myanmar will hold by-elections on April 1

Reposted from Businessweek
By Daniel Ten Kate

The U.S. welcomed Myanmar’s invitation to observe April 1 by-elections that will include former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi while cautioning that the voting process falls short of international standards.

Myanmar this week invited teams from 25 countries and the European Union to monitor the special elections for 48 seats in the 664-member Parliament, according to Surin Pitsuwan, secretary-general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The U.S. will coordinate its efforts with other nations, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters. More…

March 8, 2012

British Companies Eye Burmese Market ^Reply

by Leopard Capital • Myanmar (Burma) News • Tags: Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Asia, Burma, by-elections, construction company, deep sea exploration, equipment, EU, European Union, Foreign Secretary William Hague, Gulf of Martaban, JCB, Kachin State, Myanmar, Shell, Southeast Asia, Trans-Burma Shwe Gas Pipeline, UK, United Kingdom

JCB construction equipment

Reposted from The Irrawaddy
By Joseph Allchin

Europe’s largest construction equipment company, J. C. Bamford (JCB), has revealed it is eying entry into the Burmese market.

The UK firm hopes to gain a foothold by the middle of the year, but much may hinge on the removal of EU sanctions—contingent upon the April by-elections being deemed legitimate. More…

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