>From the State Dept.'s Burma page, I would guess we have a pretty strained relationship with Burma (scroll down to US sanctions). http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1077.html I doubt we can help or that our help would be welcome.
While the US does not forbid Americans to travel there, I can read between the lines, and I will pass. ________________________________ From: "ezra.steinb...@comcast.net" <ezra.steinb...@comcast.net> To: U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu> Sent: Mon, July 25, 2011 5:57:15 PM Subject: [USMA:50920] RE: Ditch the viss, govt urges traders I wonder how USMA could assist Burma in their metrication efforts? -- Ezra ________________________________ From: "Martin Vlietstra" <vliets...@btinternet.com> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 11:10:57 PM Subject: [USMA:50914] RE: Ditch the viss, govt urges traders Even dictatorships have problems and as long as they give the ordinary people “bread and circuses”, they remain in power. When South Africa adopted a decimal currency in 1961, they went to great lengths to ensure that there was no profiteering. As a result, decimalisation was accepted by the population as a “non-political” reform, likewise with metrication a decade later. The rationale behind the adoption of metrication in Burma is an opening up of trade – I am sure that the junta has realized that all their neighbours have prospered and that if they wish to prosper, then they too need to open their borders. Like South Africa, the junta need some sort of PR to promote changes which means clamping down on profiteers. ________________________________ From:owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of Carleton MacDonald Sent: 24 July 2011 21:38 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:50909] RE: Ditch the viss, govt urges traders I thought Burma was a dictatorship, and assumed that the military junta could just dictate what they wanted. Carleton
