A vote of no confidence from Myanmar’s oldest US law firm

US law firm in Yangon shut up shop:

https://www.mmtimes.com/news/vote-no...-law-firm.html

Basically:

- American banks are wary of getting involved in anything involving Myanmar, so remitting profits back to the US is almost impossible. So no US clients in Myanmar.

- Lack of European clients as well

"The govt has published a 12-page economic policy paper 18 months ago. Since then ... nothing"

“Furthermore, the NLD has set up a pyramid approval system, where the ‘higher authority’ needs to give prior approval. The result is that those leaders who have the authority to approve are overwhelmed with requests for their time, which results in huge project bottlenecks and delays,” he remarked.


I find this all rather worrying. Having been lobbying for 6 years to get some movement from the Myanmar government regarding my amateur radio licence (needed to develop STEM projects for Myanmar students), and having got almost nowhere, I know exactly what this report means by '...nothing'.

It's true that the people who are tasked with making decisions will not carry out their responsibilities, for fear of upsetting their superiors. They will only do the task if their superior (or his/her superior etc), instructs them to do it.

So the 'papers' sit on someone's desk for months and years and the country goes nowhere........

Telling, yes?

Which should've been obvious a generation ago.

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attributable to three major reasons akin to a three-legged stool

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Me thinks someone used the wrong metaphor? A three legged stool is stable on more or less any surface.

Well, you've got Aung Sang to thank for the bullshit democracy and the lack of willingness to help stop the Rohinya Kull thus stopping Burma developing Western friends. The only way Burma will change is without it's current puppet government and junta. But that ain't going to happen unless there is some kind of South East Asean Arab Spring that is sparked off by a Chinese peoples revolution over it's communist party Godfathers.

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Originally Posted by Simon43

US law firm in Yangon shut up shop

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You post that like it's a bad thing. ;)

backward shithole,

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Originally Posted by Wilsonandson

Well, you've got Aung Sang to thank for the bullshit democracy and the lack of willingness to help stop the Rohinya Kull thus stopping Burma developing Western friends. The only way Burma will change is without it's current puppet government and junta. But that ain't going to happen unless there is some kind of South East Asean Arab Spring that is sparked off by a Chinese peoples revolution over it's communist party Godfathers.

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You mean the illegal Bangladeshi immigrants and their terrorist units back to Bangladesh after they imposed themselves on Burma following Bangladesh's civil war in the 70s? As if Daw Suu Kyi has any say in that, are you deluded? Or do you just swallow all the propaganda shit shovelled at you by the western lefty media machine?!

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Originally Posted by Wilsonandson

Well, you've got Aung Sang to thank for the bullshit democracy and the lack of willingness to help stop the Rohinya Kull thus stopping Burma developing Western friends. The only way Burma will change is without it's current puppet government and junta. But that ain't going to happen unless there is some kind of South East Asean Arab Spring that is sparked off by a Chinese peoples revolution over it's communist party Godfathers.

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Yes, but mostly no. She's hardly to blame, she can't change much due to the constitution. Military make up 25% for the parliament and 75% of the vote in parliament is needed for change and the enactment of any new laws. However, I think their will be more strife"today's human rights abuses will be tomorrow's conflicts"- some journalist (forgot the name) who received the ire of Myanmar's right wing propaganda gutter press.