Unbelievable that the NYT runs this shit after what has happened there.
I guess whatever diversion Myanmar was used for worked.
Now, the MSM press could hardly give a shit!
"Signs of Slump at Gem Sale in Myanmar" by THOMAS FULLER
BANGKOK, Nov. 15 — Officially, the government-sponsored gem auction that opened this week in Myanmar is a success, with 2,667 traders browsing the country’s renowned rubies, jade, sapphires, and other precious stones, the New Light of Myanmar, a state-run newspaper, reported Thursday.
“More merchants will arrive,” the newspaper predicted.
But dealers and a trader based in Yangon, Myanmar’s commercial capital, say sales of precious stones — a financial lifeline for the nation’s cash-strapped economy — are slumping. They say the gem exposition and auction in Yangon, the first since the junta’s suppression of popular protests drew international criticism and the threat of United Nations Security Council sanctions, has been unusually quiet.
“Business is very slow, not like before,” U Kyaw, a gem merchant in Yangon, said by phone."
Un-fucking-real. They are covering the gem show.
So much for western sanctions, huh? What shit!
