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For Myanmar political predictions, locals look to the stars

Popular 'astrology pundits' are featured as serious political commentators in the Myanmar press. This in a country that once changed its currency on the advice of an astrologer.

By Nicholas Kohler, Contributor August 31, 2014

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Yangon, Myanmar — For years, Myanmar watchers attributed the odd decisions made by the country’s military rulers to an influential class of government apparatchik: the astrologer bureaucrat.

Take the way the regime moved the capital from Yangon to Naypyidaw in 2005: on Nov. 11, at 11 a.m., 1,100 military trucks ferried 11 military battalions and 11 ministries to a brand-new city carved from the jungle.

Continues here:- http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2014/0831/For-Myanmar-political-predictions-locals-look-to-the-stars

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