Stories Related to Myanmar Opening No Gold Rush For Us Firms

By ERIKA KINETZ, Associated Press
Thu, 11/22/2012 - 3:07am

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Signs of a boom abound in Myanmar. Flights to Yangon are full, hotel rooms booked solid. Foreign bars are packed with well-fed Westerners in khakis and jeans, twenty-first century prospectors drawn to this golden frontier....

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