It difficult to know whether there actually have been more charges or prosecutions this year relating to lèse majesté – that is, insulting the king or immediate members of the royal family. The previous elected government, led by Yingluck Shinawatra, also oversaw long trials ...
* Myanmar Digital Startup NEX Wins 2nd Round Funds From Blibros—Forbes
The company is also about to release the Nexy Keyboard, the country’s first iOS 8 keyboard in Myanmar that allows typists to use Roman fonts (“Burglish”) to produce words in Myanmar (Burmese) script.
* Keeping Up With Rocket’s Southeast Asian Adventures
Rocket’s founders, the three German Samwer brothers, still have a reputation as cloners, flippers and operators of grueling, ruthless workplaces with high staff churn. Rocket executives readily acknowledge that their sites are copycats, usually of sites pioneered in the U.S. ...
Susan J Cunningham 