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...The US Treasury said in a statement on Wednesday it was imposing sanctions on two of Min Aung Hlaing’s adult children — Aung Pyae Sone and Khin Thiri Thet Mon — and six companies they own or control....
...her lawyer Khin Maung Zaw told the Financial Times in June....
...Aung San Suu Kyi’s government in a coup in February....
...I’ve never met any statesman more honest and incorruptible than Daw Aung San Suu Kyi,” Khin Maung Zaw said. “She might have defects, but personal greed and corruption are not [among] her traits.”...
...“Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said that half an hour is not sufficient for all six cases [charges], and urged us lawyers to ask the presiding judge to make another meeting available,” Khin Maung Zaw told the FT....
...Min Aung Hlaing, the army chief, had warned before the vote that the government had not done enough to ensure a free and fair election....
...“She wants to make it into a public spectacle,” said Khin Zaw Win, director of the Tampadipa Institute think-tank in Yangon. “There is political capital to be made and this time she has to speak out.”...
...“It’s a travesty,” Khin Zaw Win, director of the Tampadipa Institute, a Yangon think-tank, said of Monday’s court ruling....
...“The Irrawaddy have switched over and aligned themselves with the prevailing narrative; they used to be independent and strongly in favour of democracy,” Khin Zaw Win, one of the few political commentators...
...Ma Shwe Khin, a villager, repeated assertions by Myanmar authorities that Rohingya militants and civilians set fire to their own homes....
...“The US is wielding the stick and China is handing out the carrots and the sugar cubes,” said Khin Zaw Win, a political analyst in Yangon....
...“Either she’s not letting them [her advisers] do their jobs, or she’s not listening to them,” says Khin Zaw Win, an analyst and former political prisoner....
...His brother, Ye Min Aung, a 24 year-old merchant seaman, was buying his second tranche of shares after netting almost $250 on his first dip....
...Khin Yoon Thar, 14, said she was learning Mandarin because her mother worked for a Chinese company but could not speak the language – and did not want her daughter to have the same problem....
...“We have never felt like this before,” said Ma Khin Oo Wai, 24, whose family had to leave their rice farm and are now making a living weaving baskets and gathering wood in a new settlement up in the hills...
...But for 81-year-old Khin Maung Lay, the rebirth of daily newspapers is like a second lease on life....
...“What is important is that this is the end of innocence here,” said U Win Htain, a local MP for opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s NLD party. “Nobody saw this coming....
...Among appointments of deputy ministers were two progressive economists and presidential advisers to the ministry of national economic planning and economic development, Winston Set Aung and Khin San Yi,...
...It is a deeply ironic moment for Mr Khin Maung Swe and the NDF....
...The US withdrew its ambassador in 1990 after Aung San Suu Kyi, the pro-democracy activist, won an election nullified by the military junta. Washington did not, however, fully close its embassy....
...In the cluttered bookshops of Yangon, biographies of Aung San Suu Kyi sit alongside books on Barack Obama and David Beckham....
...“Some think this is only cosmetic change but it’s for real,” says Khin Maung Nyo, an economist who used to advise the junta and now runs a business newspaper....
...Images of Aung San were once ubiquitous. They used to grace banknotes and the walls of public offices....
...“At different times they have made different promises, and those promises have never been kept,” said Khin Ohmar, the co-ordinator of the Burma Partnership, an exile pressure group in Thailand....
...In August, Mr Thein Sein met Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Prize-winning democracy leader who was reviled by the junta....
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