Than Shwe and his deputy, General Maung Aye, a respected military professional, are cautious and conservative.
The rebellious monks were finally crushed by former Senior General Saw Maung and Intelligence Chief Lt.
The bank's current structure "is not enough to do monetary policy, " Mr. Maung Maung Win said.
She suffered minor injuries and was hospitalized, according to Maung Maung, the advocate-general of Myanmar's Shan State, where Lashio is located.
"I foresee several hurdles along the way, " Khin Maung Lay, the 81-year-old editor of Golden Fresh Land, told the Associated Press.
When I ask one of them, Tin Tun Maung, about policy debate and decision-making, an acetylene anger flares in his eyes.
There is talk that Khin Nyunt's own job is on the line as the alleged power struggle with Maung Aye intensifies.
No deaths were confirmed in the clashes, according to Mr. Maung Maung.
Maung Aye and the growing ranks of reformist young officers who want to see Myanmar open up faster and embrace modern technology.
Religious Affairs Minister Myint Maung told a delegation of senior monks that the police regretted the injuries, which he blamed on the "incompetency" of the authorities.
One Burmese blogger, Maung Thura, is serving a 59-year prison term for circulating video footage after Cyclone Nargis in 2008, the Committee to Protect Journalists says.
Maung Aye, who is regarded as Than Shwe's heir apparent, was to officiate at the ceremony and I had hoped I might meet him and arrange an interview.
The Arabic letters in the phrase have numeric values that add up to 786, explains Maung Maung, a Muslim tea shop owner in Mandalay, Myanmar's spiritual capital and Wirathu's base.
Mr. Maung Maung Win conceded that outside influence over the currency could be a problem, given Myanmar's many border crossings with neighbors, which make it hard to monitor capital flows.
Maung Maung, advocate-general of the town, said police detained 34 people, including a Muslim man who sparked the violence by allegedly dousing a Buddhist woman with gasoline and setting her on fire.
"Many of the dead were hit by flying debris of broken walls and stone slabs that were flung on to the streets due to the explosion, " witness Maung Win told the Associated Press.
"Social instability is always a good excuse for the military to re-establish its centrality in politics and power, " said Maung Zarni, a Myanmar academic and a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics.
After Tuesday's alleged immolation, an irate crowd of more than 100 people, including Buddhist monks, gathered outside a police station demanding that the alleged attacker be handed over, said a local politician, Sai Myint Maung.
The removal of sanctions would likely lead to a massive influx of foreign money, which at minimum could push up inflation, Mr. Maung Maung Win said, though he added that the government should be able to contain such a problem with close monitoring.
Maung Maung, who helped form an interfaith group after Buddhist-Muslim violence in western Myanmar last year, says he has no problem with Buddhists using 969 to mark their shops but is troubled by the minority of religious leaders, including Wirathu, who use the symbol to campaign against Muslims.
Regrettably, one of his colleagues, Maung Maung Gyi (a 78-year-old MP-elect from Mon state, who was himself only recently released from 18 months' detention), told me at the NLD headquarters last week that Hla Kyi had been taken away by the military authorities on Sept. 27 and his whereabouts remain unknown.
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