Are we lagging behind our neighbor countries?

The following excerpt is from a tour company web site.

http://www.myanmarvisaonline.com/packagetour.html

Totally no use of credit cards, ATM cards, travellers cheque, bank or wire transfers or your cell phones here in Myanmar since July 2003. You can officially bring in US $ 2000 per person preferably in new $ 100 notes issued in or after 1996 with no torn edges or corners & the serial number heading of each note must not start with " CB " ( CBxxxxx--- ).

Concerning the move to Nay Pyi Daw, new city near Pyin Ma Na

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/GK23Ae01.html

"Nobody agreed to this move, I don't think even Gen Maung Aye [slated to succeed Than Shwe] [knew] but we all just shut our mouths," a senior military officer said.

Scary to drive a bus in Burma? :-)

http://english.dvb.no/news.html?id=5955

An air-conditioned and gas-driven bus exploded at Htawli corner, Ahlon Township in downtown Rangoon, seriously wounding the driver and a ticket collector on 16 November.