Burma

Introduction

“This is Burma, and it is quite unlike any land you know,” wrote Victorian author Rudyard Kipling in his Letters From The East in 1889. Myanmar, previously known as Burma, is a resource rich country in the emerging Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). It is the largest country in mainland Southeast Asia with a population of almost 60 million. For years, it has suffered from gross mismanagement due to excessive government controls, inefficient economic policies, and the imposition of trade sanctions by the West due to political considerations. However, a new day has dawned over this highly cultured but isolated land, as it begins modernization and gently but eagerly eases into the international community.

Myanmar is the ...