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Myanmar Burmese Culture Population Statistics

Agencies, in turn, complained bitterly about what they saw as the unfavorable influence of these donor efforts to guarantee help was not instrumentalized by the military regime. In 1988, anti-government protests resulting from financial strife and ethnic tensions led to the resignation of General Ne Win. A new Military command —the State Law and Order Restoration Council —took over and promised to hold democratic, multi-party elections. In June, 1989, the military government officially changed the name of the country from Burma to Myanmar. Four individuals on the frontlines of the anti-coup movement in Myanmar tell Preeti Jha why they are...

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Nomination Criteria Re-released

Ed Temple, a Tennessee State University track coach took notice of Rudolph’s speed on the court and mentored her from higher college to college and onto the Olympics. Born in Albany, Georgia in 1923, Alice Coachman was one particular of ten children and a sports prodigy from an early age. As an African American, she could neither practice in neighborhood instruction facilities like gymnasiums or tracks, nor compete in local competitions, due to Jim Crow segregation laws in the South. As an alternative, she tied rags, ropes and sticks collectively in a field close to her home and practiced her...