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...that attendees?who are not allowed to leave the barracks during the convention?have been furnished with "TV, karaoke, newspapers, movies, stage show, gymnasium and golf course." The 1,076 delegates, most of them handpicked by the regime, have been issued a list of stern guidelines. According to the state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper, "delegates are advised to put on suitable clothes, to avoid taking a bath at unreasonable times, and [should not] eat junk food." More ominously, they must avoid "speaking ill of others," mentioning "topics that are not related to the matters being discussed," and expressing...
...foreigners have been aided by rule changes that make state-run beer companies, and those in many other industries, more open to outside investment. Previously, companies that got listed overseas kept control in state hands by retaining the majority of shares, which couldn't be listed or sold to foreigners. That changed in November 2002, when the government allowed shares still held by listed state-run companies to be sold to foreigners. One of the first to test the new regulation was SABMiller, which paid more than $86 million last year for its initial 29.6% stake in Harbin Brewery. That...
...Schily told TIME. From his window-lined 12th-floor office on the banks of the River Spree, Schily has a commanding view of the German capital. But as chief of Germany's war on terrorism, his sights are often clouded by the country's overly complex network of independent state-run police and intelligence services. Take the morning of March 11, when European governments were scrambling their antiterror forces in the wake of the Madrid train bombings. Ideally, Schily would have liked to call a crisis meeting of top officials from the BfV, the Federal Criminal Police...
...hear that those with 15,000 kyat (about $17) can buy themselves out. The Burmese military is stronger than ever?nearly 40% of the national budget goes to the armed forces, making them the second largest in Southeast Asia after Vietnam's?but also more paranoid than ever. The state-run media is obsessed with Iraq: newspapers carry dozens of articles about suicide bombings, tumbling U.S. troop morale and rising casualties while state TV lifts footage from CNN and dubs over its own gloating commentary. The specter of military intervention has haunted the generals since the 1988 uprising, when...
...President Lyndon Johnson signed legislation that authorized an insurance program for senior citizens, Medicare, and a state-run program for the poor, Medicaid. The law was intended to be a step on the road towards providing health insurance to every American. Since 1965, America has failed to make health insurance universal. While every other industrialized nation in the world has extended health insurance to all of its citizens, America, the wealthiest nation on earth, has fallen short. More than 43 million Americans were uninsured last year, an increase of 2.4 million from the year before...