When we look at countries like Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and Burma, where substantial progress has been made in creating a minimum supply of modern men and of social overhead capital, and where institutions of centralized government exist, we find a second category of countries with a different set of problems and hence different priorities for policy.

It has 325 islands which cover an area of, with the Andaman Sea to the east between the islands and the coast of Burma.

HK has been accused of shipping small arms to conflict regions such as Bosnia and Nepal, and has licensed its weapons for production by governments with poor human rights records such as Sudan, Thailand and Burma.

As part of its current policy of ' status quo ', the ROC has not renounced claims over the territories currently controlled by the People's Republic of China, Mongolia, and Tuvan Republic in Russia, Northern Burma and some Central Asian states bordering areas.

Kabir Bedi is a firm supporter of the freedom struggle in Burma, and has become an official ambassador of the Burma Campaign UK.

Burma has petroleum, timber, tin, antimony, zinc, copper, tungsten, lead, coal, marble, limestone, precious stones, natural gas, and hydropower.

At the time of the last official census in Burma, 31 March 1983, the population was 35, 442, 972., this was estimated by the CIA World Factbook to have increased to 54, 584, 650 ; however, many other estimates put this much higher, at around 60 million: China's People Daily reported that Burma had a census in 2007, and at the end of 2009 has 59. 2 million people, and growing at 2 % annually, with exception for Cyclone Nargis in 2008, and Britain-based human rights agencies place the population as high as 70 million.

This current regime has been responsible for the displacement of several hundred thousand citizens, both inside and outside of Burma.

Burma currently has a dual exchange rate system similar to Cuba.

The United States has banned all imports from Burma.

Richard W. Hughes, author of Ruby and Sapphire, a Bangkok based gemologist who has made many trips to Burma makes the point that for every ruby sold through the junta, another gem that supports subsistence mining is smuggled over the Thai border.

The current state of the Burmese economy has also had a significant impact on the demographics of Burma, as economic hardship results in extreme delays of marriage and family building.

Burma also has a low fertility rate, of 2. 07 children per woman ( 2010 ), especially as compared to other Southeast Asian countries of similar economic standing, like Cambodia ( 3. 18 ) and Laos ( 4. 41 ), representing a significant decline from 4. 7 in 1983, despite the absence of a national population policy.

The government of Burma has two ministries controlling transportation:

Now Burma has 6 Concrete Sleeper Factories

The United States has placed broad sanctions on Burma because of the military crackdown in 1988 and the military regime's refusal to honour the election results of the 1990 People's Assembly election.

Similarly, the European Union has placed embargoes on Burma, including an arms embargo, cessation of trade preferences, and suspension of all aid with the exception of humanitarian aid.

Later, the United States federal government has imposed broad sanctions against Burma under several different legislative and policy vehicles.

The United States has also imposed countermeasures on Burma due to its inadequate measures to eliminate money laundering.

Due to its particularly severe violations of religious freedom, the United States has designated Burma a Country of Particular Concern ( CPC ) under the International Religious Freedom Act.

While Burma's presence in ASEAN was seen as a test of the organisation's philosophy of constructive engagement, the presence of Burma in ASEAN however has started to be seen as an embarrassment to the organisation, because of Burma's human rights record and lack of democracy.

The Pegu Range is a relatively low mountain chain between the Irrawaddy and the Sittaung River in central Burma.

Currently, only the Cambodia and Burma populations are thought to be viable though those populations are still very small ( low hundreds ).

After keeping a low profile, teaching Buddhism in Burma and the United States-U Nu visited Northern Illinois University in the US to lecture on Buddhism in 1987-U Nu became once again politically active during the 8888 Uprising forming the first new political party, the League for Democracy and Peace ( LDP ).

Burma Valley is a low lying area on the border between Zimbabwe and Mozambique, located next to the Bvumba hills.

The low grade warfare between Ava and Pegu went on until late 1751, when Pegu launched its final assault, invading Upper Burma in full force.

Although some units of the INA had fought tenaciously in the Japanese invasion of India and in central Burma, the morale of most of the INA was low by this point in the war.

Burma ’ s GDP stands at $ 42. 953 billion and grows at an average rate of 2. 9 % annually – the lowest rate of economic growth in the Greater Mekong Subregion.

In 2011, when new President Thein Sein's government came to power, Burma embarked on a major policy of reforms including anti-corruption, currency exchange rate, foreign investment laws and taxation.

The literacy rate of Burma, according the UNESCO Institute of Statistics ( 2005 ) stands at 89. 7 % ( males: 93. 7 %, females: 86. 2 %), although there is dispute over the accuracy of the provided literacy rates.

Historian Thant Myint-U writes: " At the beginning of the 20th century, Indians were arriving in Burma at the rate of no less than a quarter million per year.

Skull, as illustrated in Reginald Pocock | Pocock's The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma – Mammalia Vol 2

border countries: Burma 235 km, Cambodia 541 km, the People's Republic of China 423 km, Thailand 1, 754 km, Vietnam 2, 130 km

In Eastern Burma the highest point of the Shan Hills is 2, 563 m high Loi Pangnao, one of the ultra prominent peaks of Southeast Asia.

* Kennedy Peak ( Burma ), 2, 703 m

Increasing numbers of migrants from Burma, Laos, and Cambodia as well as nations such as Nepal, India, along with those from the West and Japan have pushed the number of non-nationals residing in Thailand to close to 2 million in 2008, up from about 1. 3 million in the year 2000.

* Shan ( Thai Luang, Tai Long, Thai Yai ), spoken by about 100, 000 in north-west Thailand along the border with the Shan States of Burma, and by 3. 2 million in Burma ( 2006 ).

Burma most likely includes a modest number of Hmong ( perhaps around 2, 500 ) but no reliable census has been conducted there recently.

On 6 November 2005, the administrative capital of Burma was officially moved to a greenfield 3. 2 km west of Pyinmana, and approximately 300 km north of Yangon ( Rangoon ), the previous capital.

Page 2 of the Instrument of Accession, with signatures of Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir, and Viscount Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Mountbatten of Burma, Governor-General of India.

On 2 March 1974 — twelve years after his coup — he disbanded the Revolutionary Council and proclaimed the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma.

The tsunami also resulted in various geomorphological changes in the region such as those in the contour of the 2, 000 km-long Burma plate, which sits atop the India plate, resulting in a rise in the land level of Chennai, ranging between 0. 5 cm and 3 cm.

Hinduism in Burma is practised by less than 2 % of the population ( approximately 240, 000 ), with most practitioners being Burmese Indians.

The Yawyins or Lisu, Journal of the Burma Research Society 11 ( Part 2 ), pp. 70 – 74.

Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States, Parts 1 & 2, reprinted by AMS Press ( New York ).

The Chittagong Hill Tracts () comprise an area of 13, 295 km < sup > 2 </ sup > in south-eastern Bangladesh, and borders India and Myanmar ( Burma ).