Two weeks after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank sent the financial sector into a tailspin, Washington lawmakers will finally get a forum to publicly grill top regulators on what went wrong.
April 10, 2021 Share
As recently as last year, Myanmar was being touted as an attractive destination for international investors, even in the face of bad publicity over the government’s handling of the crisis in Rakhine State, where almost 1 million Rohingya residents had been massacred or driven into exile.
“While potential investors should be wary of inadvertently supporting the persecution, well-placed investments could yield rewards and spur a developing economy,” wrote the website World Finance – which bills itself as “the voice of the market” – in February 2020.
“The raw materials for a thriving investment climate are all present if businesses are willing to enter the market.”