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Monet in a photograph
B Magazine, Justin Heifetz, Published on 23/02/2014
» Daniel Cordonnier hates two things: air conditioners and God. But only recently has he been able to give full expression to his feelings. For much of his life the Parisian was dispassionate, his creative desires and ambitions stifled as he pursued a lucrative business manufacturing air conditioners. Then he remembered a day in his childhood that changed everything.
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Fight over the spoils leads to rights abuses
Spectrum, Justin Heifetz, Published on 02/03/2014
» On a humid July day in Shan state, a 12-year-old girl was playing under the monsoon rains falling over her tiny northern township of Ke See. The Myanmar army had been quietly building a presence there since 2009, after the government signed a deal with China to lay pipelines through the area to take oil and gas from the Rakhine basin in the west to Yunnan province. These pipelines, called the Shwe, would be a safe alternative to the strategically vulnerable Strait of Malacca — so the governments said.
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Telecom bidders vie to stand out in Myanmar ‘beauty contest’
Asia focus, Justin Heifetz, Published on 28/11/2013
» Bidders for telecom licences in Myanmar are stepping up activities in the country in hopes of scoring high in a “beauty contest” being held by consultants hired by the government.
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Drilling for details
Asia focus, Justin Heifetz, Published on 28/11/2013
» While as many as 50 oil and gas companies submitted expressions of interest on June 14 for 30 offshore blocks, industry insiders warn that poor infrastructure and the government’s new production sharing contract (PSC) regime are risky for foreign investors.
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Bearing the brunt of male chauvinism
Spectrum, Justin Heifetz, Published on 15/12/2013
» Yingluck Shinawatra is hardly the first female politician to be subjected to misogynistic comments. In fact, the treatment the caretaker prime minister has received follows that of a long line of women leaders who have come in for criticism their male counterparts have not had to endure.
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Tangled lines
Asia focus, Justin Heifetz, Published on 14/10/2013
» While Myanmar’s two international telecom companies have yet to receive their operating licences from the government, experts say the real — and possibly crippling — challenges as they move into the virgin market of 60 million consumers will be site acquisition and navigating state regulations.
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