While the Thai floods are getting a lot less attention that the recent tsunami in Japan, the damage to the tech supply chain is cleary far more severeinthe current situation.
However, the human rights situationin Burma is far more severe, and Washington has had sanctions on the military junta for the most of nineteen years to virtually no avail.
Severe import restrictions led to a situationin which nearly half the gold consumed in India was contraband and the average spread between domestic and international gold prices was as high as 53%.