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Burma’s parliament holds the key for new investment
January 27, 2012 — London Writer: Trefor Moss
When Burma’s new parliament first opened just one year ago, it was roundly dismissed as a front which the country’s authoritarian rulers would use to rubber-stamp their decisions. But this week, as the parliament opens its third session, the international community – and the Burmese themselves – are taking the institution far more seriously.
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When a journalist from the German newsweekly der Spiegel recently told me how alarmed she was to find that she was the only person reading off a piece of paper in a Los Angeles café I thought she was overdoing it. “I really felt like some kind of martian, reading my newspapers while everyone else was just staring into their iPhones and gazing at screens,” she said.
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