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How do you take a chaotic currency most investors avoid like the plague and make it viable?
Float it with major oversight. That's the recommendation from Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz, who spoke to the Wall Street Journal after a visit to Burma, officially titled Myanmar.
Burma... full story
But is the Muslim-majority nation likely to ban booze? No.
Indonesia's largest Islam-centered party has revived its call for an all-out booze ban in Indonesia to "save the next generation," the Jakarta Globe reports.
Muslim-majority Indonesia goes through periodic bouts of hand wringing over its alcohol laws -- basically, you can buy beer... full story
