A Myanmar-Chinese community has long thrived in Taiwan but shifts in the island’s national identity has made emigrating more difficult, even as people are more desperate than ever to leave Myanmar.
BY Frontier
The middle and upper classes are faring well under the Thein Sein government, but has the President lived up to his promise to alleviate rural poverty?
A community under pressure sticks to itself and gets on with business.
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