Editor’s note: Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) and Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) are members of the U.S. Congress. The views expressed are their own.
For the first time since hosting Burmese dictator Ne Win nearly 50 years ago, the United States will host another head of state from Myanmar. The historic visit from President Thein Sein on Monday will, no doubt, lead to much discussion of Myanmar’s extremely long road toward democracy and whether there may be a relapse in their recent reform. It is also an opportunity to evaluate America’s new Myanmar policy.
They call it “Old Man’s Land” — ravaged by conflict and economic deprivation, Myanmar’s southeast Mon state is a place bereft of its young, who have flooded overseas in search of work.
An elderly woman uses an old weaving loom to make cotton clothes at her house in Mawlamyine, Myanmar’s Mon state, on March 14, 2013. Myanmar’s southeast Mon state is a place bereft of its young, who have flooded overseas in search of work.
But with a reformist government now promoting peace and economic development in impoverished border areas, the region is now looking to its future — and its lost youth.
The rural Mon community of Ywarthit is a place for the old and the very young. Locals say around 70 percent of households are missing the generation in between.
Many teenagers leave once they have finished school, crossing the border into Thailand to seek work in factories or as domestic helpers.
NOTE:Google translation from the Swedish News Paper
Swedish Dagbladet Foreign
The people no one wants to acknowledge Rohingyas fate is one of Asia’s lesser known refugee tragedies. They are not recognized as a minority people of neither the regime or the opposition in Burma. Instead, they are forced to leave the country for an uncertain existence in other countries such as Malaysia.
Svenska Dagbladet in Malaysia. March 11, 2012 at 22:40, Updated: March 12, 2012 at 06:47 (more…)
I hereby request someone to AUDIT and punish Postlaju for taking about 10 days to deliver letters from KL to KL Malaysian postmen were taken about 2 ks-2mts to just deliver a letter from KL to KL. Post Laju is taking about 7-10 days to deliver the intra KL city letters. It is too much and shameful.
An elderly woman uses an old weaving loom to make cotton clothes at her house in 
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