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Asia Keeps Burmese Industry Humming: Trade, Both Legal and Illegal, Blunts Effect of U.S. Economic Sanctions

Date: January 7, 2006

Author: Alan Sipress

QUOTE: Burmese industry and exports were on the decline in the 1990s as a result of progressive attempts by the United States to tighten economic sanctions on Burma, protesting its suppression of democracy. But the effort to pressure its rulers has been vastly undercut by the enthusiasm of other countries, especially Burma's Asian neighbors, to tap its cheap workforce and abundant natural resources...

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Key People:

• Aung San Suu Kyi

Key Organizations:

• Washington Post Newspaper

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Government & Politics / History
  • Government (General)
    • Human Rights
    • Protests/Dissent
      • Boycotts/Sanctions

• Social Sciences & Groups
  • Economics: General
    • World Trade

• Asia
  • East Asia
    • China (People's Republic / Mainland)
  • South Asia
    • Bangladesh
    • India
  • Southeast Asia
    • Burma/Myanmar
    • Thailand

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