Standard Chartered has just reopened its representative office in Yangon, the commercial capital, after a gap of several years.

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Australia puts every foreign investment before a review board, and it is deeply concerned about China, which may not operate as a typical commercial investor trying to maximise the value of a resource, but rather as the representative of buyers who would like to do the reverse.

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Representative Harold Ford, who's running for the Senate, has a commercial running in which he announces, you know, it's time to start bringing the troops home and that he's in a difficult spot because, you know, he's running in a state that's been dominated by the Republican Party.

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