The new Myanmar strategy is modeled after sanctions on North Korea imposed in 2005 and strengthened in 2006 after Pyongyang resumed testing long-range ballistic missiles.
But if her hosts had hoped that she would cite Singapore as a role model for Myanmar, they were disappointed.
If Washington is to replicate this model in Myanmar, it will have to rally support from a larger and more diverse group of regional actors: China and India.
To accommodate the geological evidence, we propose a tectonic model for Myanmar involving a greater Sibumasu – where the documented zircon isotopic variations reflect compositional variations in magmatic source – and invoke the role of a Tengchong Block.
We investigated the species composition of the dry forest communities in the central dry zone of Myanmar, and developed environmental distribution models.
Two spatial epidemiological models were developed: one with combined H5N1 outbreak data from India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam (South and Southeast Asia Model), and a second one using only data from India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar (South Asia Model).
IF THERE was ever a role model for Than Shwe, Myanmar's vicious, nutty, reclusive "senior general", it was Suharto, Indonesia's late kleptocrat.
For example, the Myanmar Spirulina Factory (Yangon, Myanmar) produces pills, French fries, and pasta.
It's true there are countries like Myanmar that have done poorly, but our model has a far better track record than the alternative.
With an exponential growth rate in HIV infection, Myanmar has made this programme a national model for HIV prevention education.
