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The Jakarta Globe- September 19, 2012 Yangon. As Myanmar implements reforms and foreign investors jet in, most find precious few ways to make money. There is no stock market. A new foreign investment law is delayed. And the biggest local companies are entangled in US and European sanctions. Zaw Zaw, one of Myanmar’s most... 

Workers on strike (Photo- AFP) The West Australian- September 19, 2012 SHANGHAI (AFP) - Thousands of workers at a Singapore-owned plant in China's commercial hub of Shanghai have gone on strike to protest against a plan to move the factory, a labour rights group said Wednesday. About 6,000 workers at the Flextronics plant walked... 

My friends, Mr Lee Kuan Yew and Mr Goh Chok Tong may have wielded much power when they they held office. They probably still do. The power they possess is formal power, the kind backed up by force. They have the entire state machinery as well as the mass media on their side. But we, the Singapore Democrats, have something infinitely...