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    trying to become a fullmember of the Extractive Initiative (EITI), which

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    Chin Govt to Provide Vocational Training to Rural Youth

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    UPS Establishes Freight Forwarding

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    Myanmar Summary

    Your Myanmar Taxes How Do You Pay,

    and Other Issues

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    Life in a Circle: The Tyre-cutters of YangonY

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    They will tire themselves

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    themselves. I started cut-

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    hurry. This is a job that will

    never make you rich.

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    Myanmar to Open More Border Trade PointsBorder trade goes up 11pc in FY 2014-15

    Myanmar willopen three moreborder trade

    Of the three new border ing Thailand, while one

    are negotiating withconcerned neighbour open the three new bor will take the total number

    Pite Tee with China,through Myawaddy withThailand and through

    Phyo Thu

    and China, reaching over

    on illegal border trade,

    worth about $16 billionfrom November 2012 un

    Tr ade goes up

    percent compared with

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    cal year, of which over percent while border

    In 2013, border trade hit

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    Kayah State to Get $1.9-m Tourism BoostDutch funding for ITC programme aims increasing sustainable tourism in Myanmar

    The InternationalTrade Centre (ITC)together with the

    from developing coun in Myanmar with a par

    by CBI and implemented by the International

    The NTFIII Steering

    Tin Mg Oo Group recently met local in Yangon, and Loikaw, the implementation and

    for market development,

    line with national devel

    the capacity of local au gether in a coherent and natural beauty, Aeroe

    integrate local produc

    Creating economic op

    Dick de Man, deputymanaging director of CBI, try can bring foreign exchange to Myanmar andcontribute to job creation

    Our aim in working try in developing coun to enhance their econom ability in a targeted way,

    Baker & McKenzie Says Will Assist

    Firms Achieve Objectives in Myanmar

    G Baker & McKen

    the board legal and tax

    Wai Linn Kyaw be a country of growing Economic Community with neighbouring coun

    weve had and common partner of Baker & Mc

    ture of the work were do

    to intellectual property,

    Myanmar government of

    McKenzie brought to leading multinational and

    diplomatic and trade rep tion to formally celebratethe opening of Baker &

    on the changing regula

    Kien Keong Wong,chairman of Baker & Mc

    training local talent to

    in the country, helping

    them to put in place ef

    economic developmentand employment crea

    Myanmar Summary

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    in Myanmar providing across the board legal and tax advisory services.

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    Full Implementation of Mobile Banking

    May Take up to Two Years

    A to adopt mobile

    banking, it could take up nology and large mobile

    Technology and mobile a year or two given thatOoredoo and Telenor are Myanmar Business Today.

    The implementation

    to go to a branch loca country, in particular in

    When mobile banking wont need bank branch

    vate Bank, Innwa Bank

    May Soe San

    far have been allowed tooperate mobile banking

    applied for the operation they cannot meet the

    Central Bank, including Htike Kyaw, deputy general manager of KBZ

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    The Central Bank Law tion Law, which aim to been enacted, U ThanMaung, a legal expert,

    told Myanmar BusinessToday.

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    Myanmar Summary

    VDB Loi Boosts Myanmar

    Credentials with Heineken LicenceL

    tor in Myanmar, the My

    owned company to under

    in charge of Myanmarwho led the legal team permit, Edwin Vander before, and the client hadbeen told that it would already have a no, why

    May Soe San

    that if you get engaged able to put together a way

    Jean Loi, VDB Loi managing partner who over new kind of MIC Permit never been done before, I think you only win one

    ment and corporate M&A,

    tate, manufacturing and

    Thilawa Special Econom

    Most Exports Dip inFirst Four Months of

    2014-15FY

    M Myanmar de

    dropped 7 percent and

    million during the period,

    Kyaw Min 15 earned only $17 million,

    in the period, racking up

    from the border trade

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    Summit Highlights Gaps in

    Myanmars Green Energy Potential

    D

    convened at the Myanmar Green Energy Summit in Yangon recently

    the central [electricity] Kadir, chairman of Confexhub Group, which or

    the audience that green growth in Myanmar, help reduce poverty among

    about the idea of placinggreen energy at the center

    and learn from their fail

    alleviate poverty, create Myanmar into the ASEAN

    U Aung Khaing, chairman of the Yangon Electricity Supply Board tal population currently

    demand by local and in

    Jacob Goldberg

    hoped to generate excite for electric power, other

    Gauri Singh, a directorfor the International Re

    newable Energy Agency the Myanmar government

    dedicated to explaining

    tary general of the International Committee for

    hydropower potential of

    Soe Moe, an executive engineer for YESB, recount

    tion project in Twante to 11 percent by upgrad

    that while upgrading central grid, much of the

    reach them would be both

    productivity by extending

    director for Sunlabob Re

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    CEO of WEnergy Global the idea of powering My

    advocated for rapid con

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    no need to wait to change

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    Thailand, Myanmar Strike MICE Deal

    The Thailand Con

    vention and Exhibition Bureau (TCEB)

    Myanmar Federation of improve and expand their

    operate to promote trade,

    Aung Phyo

    and commodity exhibi hindering the full poten

    to further improve andexpand trade promotion

    deepen engagement andexpand collaboration inpreparation for the AEC

    integration in 2015, he

    In 2013, Thailand received 7,101 Myanmar

    drew 1,013,502 MICE

    15 percent from the year

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    Myanmar Sets Up $51-m

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    Aye Myat

    approved by local authori targeted to be completed in

    tion point between Myanmar and China, reaching

    Govt FormsAnti-Money

    Laundering CentralBoard

    T formed a centralboard in a bid to

    combat money laundering,

    The central board willcooperate with more international and regional exchanging information on ing to money laundering,

    Myanmar enacted the According to earlier re

    cooperated with Thailand,

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    In 2013, Thailand drew 1,013,502 meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions (MICE) visitors,with receipts totalling $2.94 billion. This year, TCEB expects 888,210 international MICE visitors,generating $2.90 billion.

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    Thai Economy Averts Recession as

    Outlook Improves After Coup

    T expanded more

    cal demand recovered after a military coup ended

    tional Economic & Social Junta leader Prayuth

    paid money due to rice new government to revive cutting the upper range

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    2 percent from a range The economy may expand

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    year earlier, expanding

    could be delayed further if and appointed a National

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    National Economic & Social Development Board said.

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    Lee to Add Funding Options for Singapore

    Retirees as Nation AgesS

    ing & Development Board tral Provident Fund or

    little pot of gold to drawon, if they need to, Lee hand to provide for your

    Sharon Chen

    vey by Manulife Financial

    are able to draw from in the account to provide

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    having a bit more control kind of like a father who

    E l d er l y p a c k a g e

    neer Generation Package, man Shanmugaratnam

    will introduce a yearly ber of elderly will triple

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    Singapore will broaden the options for its citizens to monetise state-subsidised homes, Prime MinisterLee Hsien Loong said.

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    Airasia Denies Report ItsWeighing A Bid for Japans Skymark

    AirAsia says report is rubbish

    M a media report

    warned of uncertainty failing to follow through rier, which had been un demanding an extraordinary amount of compen

    While the Nikkei report by their daily limit of 50

    er, Rakuten Inc, and other

    yen, valuing the company

    Anshuman Daga Skymark could be at

    little chance of a takeover are unlikely to automati

    growing concern that Ai

    Myanmar Summary

    Melbourne Tops Economists World

    Most Liveable Cities Index, Again

    A once again beennamed among the

    Melbourne topping theinternational index pro Intelligence Unit for the

    The Victorian capital (5th), Sydney (7th) and

    The city narrowly edged

    Melbourne achieved per healthcare, education and formed well in the other

    in healthcare, education,

    dominated the top 10 in At the other end of the

    table, many of the low undermine the availability

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    and Sydney also making the top 10.

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    become challenging and Brendan Sobie, chief ana

    budget airline in Japan,

    Reuters

    without leading to high

    currently experiencing th, ndplace, Agencies

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    Myanmar Summary

    Hedging between Giants: Myanmar,

    China and the United States

    A form momentum,

    balancing act between

    Recently, when US Secretary of State John Kerryarrived at the ASEAN Regional Forum in Nay PyiTaw, he wanted the people of Myanmar to know

    between China and Myan between the two coun

    In reality, the bilat and Myanmar have been

    Inadvertently, Myan

    R a p i d g r o w t h

    p e r f o r m a n c e

    of economic growth and

    Dan Steinbock

    vironment with multiple

    reliance on the abundant low productivity in agriculture, the economy

    include a decline in com and further economic fra

    W ash i n g t o n s h o p es

    on foreign aid to Myan

    ton and Tokyo are inten

    uled to upgrade a railtrack from Yangon toMandalay, Japan won the

    Meanwhile, US Con intimidation of journal

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    ed Myanmar in 2012, but

    Ch in ese setb acks

    from China and Hong from Korea, Thailand and

    made reference to envi tion, while the Myanmar

    leader of the incumbent general election in late

    the termination of the could have more exten

    ject, which the Myanmargovernment put on theback burner in July, allowing the memorandum

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    rail tunnel through the

    So the cooperation op

    likely to follow only after

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    b a n d w a g o n i n g

    inant Myanmar narrative

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    the country will join the According to US ob

    project, which would Indian Ocean, would give alternative to the longer

    In Beijing, the rail pro bodia, Thailand and Ma

    In Beijing, Myanmar

    gle for democracy and hu

    know only too well that a the perception of band

    The great balancing act

    ate a middle ground that

    Dr Dan Steinbock is the

    research director of inter-national business at theIndia, China and AmericaInstitute (USA) and a visit-ing fellow at the ShanghaiInstitutes for Internation-al Studies (China) and EUCenter (Singapore). Theviews and opinions ex-pressed in this article arethe authors own and dont

    Todays editorial opinion.

    US Secretary of State John Kerry attends the 4th Nay Pyi Taw.

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    David Mayes

    Irecently read about

    found a way to balance

    Some think that planning nothing to do with their

    Planning for Balance

    priority number one, yet ifwhat you have to do to get

    your career and deciding

    in advance, preferably with rate race and eventually

    on the one hand can advance your career rapidly, Planning ahead and be

    you feel like your part

    in a place you would liketo be long term, even if it

    but many people fail in plan ahead of time and

    I am lucky that I can work decided my major in uni likely to give me an option to work from home at thought of not being in an

    and if you do not take thetime to actively plan whatyou want out of it otherthan purely monetar to end up with whatever

    interview if you admittedthat you placed your familyover your career, and if youdid get into banking you A good approach to

    lar outlook on balancing interview the interviewer with what you want out

    take longer, but it will pay David Mayes MBA

    provides wealth man-agement services to ex-patriates throughoutSoutheast Asia, focusingon UK Pension Trans-fers. He can be reachedat [email protected]. Faramond UK isregulated by the FCA andprovides advice on pen-sions and taxation.

    Myanmar Summary

    they fail to plan ahead of time and get pressured into making one trade-off after another.

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    Myanmar Summary

    Company Spotlight: Parami Energy Group

    In July, Parami Energy the Myanmar Center

    tion provided on each

    According to Parami

    Energy Group CEO KenTun, We are committed

    Th e Compa n y

    allowing them to leverage According to Tun, the

    an innovative company ing the typical Myanmar

    We believe that we can what we are doing in our

    Aundrea Montao

    B u i l d i n g I n t e r n a l

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    ferent kind of company in

    tractive feature to foreign

    ply with international growth and development,

    ment internationally

    it will be audited by aninternational accounting

    COO Yap Kwong Weng

    complicit in any human

    Parami Energy Group implemented a human

    and environment (HSE)

    [We are] channellingour energy in the right

    Co rpo r a te Soci a l

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    dearth of education and capacity in Myanmar,Parami Energy Group

    wady region, and Shan already impacted over

    nomic development of SME capacity building

    area include the delivery

    out the country by 2015 already planted in Kayin

    We believe engaging

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    Myanmar Summary

    Investors in Thailand: Maintain Contingency PlansTailands coup could spell future trouble for the countrys political stability and security situation. Investors would be wise to maintain

    contingency response plans in case the situation worsens. Such plans should involve pre-identifying specic events that trigger corresponding

    actions, the cultivation of relationships with local allies, and the development of a commercial intelligence program.

    C

    they occur there more

    argue that they are nec

    There are already large

    tion that feel politicallyalienated in Thailand, and ian violence in SouthernThailand that, after a brief

    land will recover from

    performance, an interim

    Nicholas Borroz

    temporary bandage that of a deterioration in Thai that include the following

    lence emerge in Thailand, to carry out a compre

    tain commercial intelli

    them a leg up in imagining with whom to build rela

    mercial intelligence pro Adopting the above

    pate turmoil in Thailand,

    in a haphazard, panicked

    Nicholas Borroz is anindependent analyst ofenergy geopolitics and in-

    vestment strategies, spe-cialising in energy-relatedinfrastructure. He worksfor a DC-based risk con-sultancy and has previ-ously worked for the USgovernment in interna- on development, energy,and economics. You canreach him on Twitter at@NBorroz or on his blog,

    www.nicholasborroz.wordpress.com.

    The views and opinionsexpressed here are the au-thors own and dont nec- Business Todays editorialopinion.

    A protester is detained by Thai soldiers during an anti-coup demonstration in Bangkok.

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    China Flounders in Myanmar while India GlidesMajor Chinese infrastructure projects in Myanmar keep hitting snags

    O

    tion announced the cancellation of an agreement ment to build a railwayconnecting Kunming inChina to Kyaukpyu in director Myint Wai attributed the cancellation to

    Myanmar Yang Houlan

    the project would pro the Myanmar govern

    2011 MoU between the followed the route of an

    China Railway Engineer In exchange, the CRECwould have retained man

    Jacob Goldberg

    the railway would have citing environmental and

    exporting local natural

    The cancellation of

    ently falling prey to public will connect Myanmar

    port Project, which will

    facility to accommodate Kaladan River in Rakhine

    will connect Paletwa inChin State to the border

    Kaladan Movement inRakhine State and the alarm about the Kaladanproject due to the lack ofenvironmental impact

    by either the Indian orMyanmar government to living along the route of

    proceed with the creation that will connect Moreh

    man of the environmental Myanmar Business To-day the environmental impactof the highway cannot yetbe made given the current

    The fact that both In anmar have faced public

    the Myanmar govern

    funded by both India andChina have been met with

    According to Madhurjya

    Kamar Dutta, program

    manager for trade and Development and Coop dalay highway will bring connectivity between My

    it will complete one of the

    Highway network and tween Thailand and the

    Mekong Corridor to link opening of a new eco

    apparent imbalance of

    The fact that both Indian and

    Chinese infrastructure projects in

    Myanmar have faced public oppo-

    sition, while Indias projects have

    remained intact, may suggest that the

    Myanmar government has chosen India

    to pick up where China has been forced

    to leave off.

    Indian Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj attends the 4th -national Convention Center (MICC) in Nay Pyi Taw. India is stepping up efforts to engage more closely with Myanmar in a bid to gain tradeaccess to the ASEAN region.

    UAung/Xinhua

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    New Media Laws: Creating a Legal Basis

    for Media Freedom in MyanmarI

    nounced the adoption freedom into the coun

    government for withhold

    by the lower and upper the print media in a coun

    Stefanie Siegfried

    ty, undermining the ruleof law or harming ethnic

    amended by the Upper Due to the opening ofthe country, and the importance of international bill have been made that

    needed to be reviewed inaccordance with interna

    were held between the

    the power of the govern

    compliance with the lawhave been reduced from

    through a long review

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    Myanmar Summary

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    Myanmar Summary

    SPS Touts Making Yangon

    Realty Investment a BreezeP

    ing development advice,valuation and market reA wing of Singapore

    company owner Hugo veyor backed by a decadeof experience in property

    commercial realty which

    into the perplex Myanmar

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    SPS Myanmar, which ally accredited to perform

    Kyaw Min

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    property valuation, creat market targeting, project

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    protection of media free

    drafted by the MPC, the

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    META CommunicationInternational GmbH that with local media to extend gaining a foothold in My the need for the creation freedom and freedom of Strohal Legal Group

    -fering highly personal-ised services specialis-ing in international andcross border business.SLG enjoys a well-estab-lished reputation acrossEurope, Southeast Asiaand the Middle East. InMyanmar, SLG providesservices under the nameU Min Sein & Strohal As-sociates Law Firm.

    The views and opinionsexpressed here are theauthors own and do not -anmar Business Todayseditorial opinion.

    From page 22...

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    Q&A: Your Property Finder (YPF)Managing Director Charm May Thu

    Myanmar BusinessToday (MBT): ty Finder (YPF) CompanyCharm May Thu(CMT):

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    MBT: CMT: modern marketing tool

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    about our online market out to be potential deal

    MBT: CMT: client can take a look at

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    CMT: I handle on a routine ba

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    MBT: CMT: Singapore and Myanmar groomed in both coun

    back to you on that for an

    MBT:How do you handle CMT: I live, eat and have dealt with count

    MBT: Do you have any CMT: we guide them with ourproperty related market

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    Myanmar Summary

    Your Property Finder, Managing Director Charm May Thu.

    Supply

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    Myanmar Summary

    China Finds Mercedes-Benz Guilty of Price FixingDaimler price xing probe part of broader industry clampdown

    G been found guilty

    Daimler, the parent declined to comment fur

    Brenda Goht

    National Development (NDRC), launched an in

    were overcharging Chi

    The Xinhua report,

    announced that it would of 15 percent and BMW an average of 20 percent,

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    or more, the brokerage

    in China, Daimler and would take a hit of around1 percent in 2015, and

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    The European Chamberof Commerce in China that European compa

    couraged from appealing The European Cham

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    China, enabling them to

    buying a new vehicle,citing a report from theChina Automotive Maintenance and Repair Trade

    mium car brand in China,

    of whom operate in China

    with a local partner, have

    year by 2015, while Audi Reuters

    Ford Plans New Hybrid Seriesto Compete With Toyota Prius

    F to introduce a new

    The compact car will be

    rather than a variation of

    Paul Lienert unnamed vehicle will be

    including a more expen

    can be recharged from an

    The new Ford hybrid

    an annual rate of about

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    expected to provide betterfuel economy and range

    compact architecture,

    Ford, like other major

    hybrid technology to meet

    America, Europe and

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    dustry Exhibition in Shanghai.

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    Why Twitter Will Outlast Facebook

    Im not really one for pecially where it con

    world, but in 2011 I made the eyebrow of a friend from your FB network

    app out there that con

    Twitter is a newssource. We can follow on Twitter and get up to

    Ed Heil ing the information they determine when theywant the public to get

    neighbourhood for peo the way that media have

    News media mem-bers have embracedTwitter. A while ago,I wrote a piece on how

    by creating their own per not privy to that informa

    tively engaging their fol talking to people through but real time engagement

    Engage with fa-mous people on Twit-ter. people have Facebook

    not much chance youregoing to engage with a due to the public natureof the wall and how infor receive a comment back on Twitter than on Face on Twitter than on Face

    Twitter is easier touse on a mobile de-

    vice.Dont get me wrong, your mobile device, but

    Its easier to avoidannoying people onTwitter. all have a handful of peo unfriend them, we either put up with their in

    comb through your Twit

    Commercialisationwill kill the Facebookexperience. will ruin Facebook for a that for a lot of people and can learn about our audi

    my opinion, Id love to

    Myanmar Summary

    An illustration picture shows the log-on icon for the Website Facebook and Twitter on an Ipad in Bor-

    deaux, Southwestern France.

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    An eBay logo is projected onto white boxes in this illustration picture taken in Warsaw.

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    E

    EBay told potential can of PayPal chief executive

    Supantha Mukherjee

    & Edwin Chan

    The board will continue

    value and to enhance thegrowth and competitive

    part of PayPal, and what remained unclear, The In

    Icahn eventually backed in the near future, now

    an independent PayPalcan grow by attracting on Reuters

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    TG304 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 RGN BKK 9:50 11:45 Thai Airways PG701 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 BKK RGN 8:50 9:40 Bangkok Airways

    PG702 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 RGN BKK 10:45 12:40 Bangkok Airways FD2755 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 DMK RGN 11:35 12:20 Thai AirAsia

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