Synonyms

union_of_burma Myanmar

Examples

"much opium is grown in Myanmar"

Used in print

The appointment of U_Thant of Burma as the U.N.'s Acting Secretary_General - at this writing , the choice appears to be certain - offers further proof that in politics it is more important to have no influential enemies than to have influential friends .

In all the bitter in-fighting , the squabbles over election procedures , the complicated numbers_game that East and West played on the assistant secretaries ' theme , the gentleman from Burma showed himself both as a man of principle and a skilled diplomat .

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 .

Related terms

Asian_country asean Burmese Malay_Peninsula Indochina Mekong Rangoon Mandalay dacoit Sino-Tibetan Myanmar_monetary_unit dacoity