Noreen Wong also came from Burma, now called Myanmar, and she had attended birthday parties for Mr. Wong since he was an infant.

There is evidence that sanctions are finally having an effect on one of the most abusive governments in the world: the ruling forces in Burma, now called Myanmar by the military junta.

Last month, the government of what is now called Myanmar raised fuel prices up to five hundred per cent.

The last Asian secretary general was U Thant of Burma, the nation now called Myanmar.

The Prime Minister of Burma was the head of government of Burma, also called Myanmar, from 1948 to 2011.

Telephone and telex lines to the country, now called Myanmar, were apparently cut.

Aung San Suu Kyi was born in 1945 in Burma, now called Myanmar.

The scholar, wife and mother forsook the English countryside to return to her native land - called Myanmar by the junta - where she assumed the leadership of a new democratic opposition.

Mr. Dimsey, who is 54 years old, was born in Burma, now called Myanmar.

His new assignment takes him to former Burma (now called Myanmar), and the deadly Orient, which he hasn't seen since the Korean War.