Japan Inc is charging into Myanmar. The rush began one night last October, when Myanmar’s wew president rolled out a map after dinner to show an aging Japanese power broker a prize that could be Tokyo’s to develop – a swathe of land nearly as big as Macau.

Thein Sein, 67, a former general, had been president of Myanmar’s civilian government for just six months. He had won cautious praise for reconciling with democracy icon Aug San Suu Kyi and opening Myanmar’s economy after five decades of brutal junta rule. Now he was seeking investors to develop Asia’s second-poorest country.

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Source: (Phnom Penh Post – October 04, 2012)