A news stand with some magazines with familiar sounding English titles in Yangon, May 2010
A news stand with many English titles in Yangon, May 2010 Myanmar is a resource-rich country that remains one of the poorest nations in Southeast Asia, suffering from decades of stagnation, mismanagement and isolation at the hands of the ruling military junta. The United States, the European Union, Canada, and Australia have imposed financial and economic sanctions on Burma, prohibiting most financial transactions with Burmese entities, imposing travel bans on Burmese officials and others connected to the ruling regime. Elections were last held in Myanmar in 1990, when the National League for Democracy (NLD) won in a landslide and the partys leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, was set to become prime minister. The results were dismissed by the ruling military junta and which has stayed in power since. The junta scheduled national elections to be held in late 2010, but the NLD announced it would boycott the elections, and was automatically dissolved in early May 2010, in an act of defiance.
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Location: Yangon, Myanmar
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