Arakan News Agency
Puts problems at home on back burner to appeal to senior Singapore business leaders to help Myanmar become more prosperous
Myanmar state counselor Aung San Suu Kyi put problems at home on the back burner Wednesday to appeal to senior business leaders in Singapore to help Myanmar become more prosperous than the Southeast Asian city-state within two decades.
Channel News Asia reported Suu Kyi as telling business leaders gathered at IE Singapore’s Global Conversations that in 20 years’ time Myanmar will have overtaken Singapore
“You will help us to do that because success in one part of the region means success throughout the region,” she said.
Suu Kyi — who also serves as Myanmar’s foreign minister — referenced her country’s human capital and natural resources as attractions for Singaporean ventures.
Her government has also taken steps to introduce or revise laws, such as the Myanmar Investment Law, which simplifies procedures and provides incentives, to make the country more appealing to foreign businesses.
In the past two months, Myanmar has been heavily criticized by the international community for its failure to probe ongoing attacks against its Rohingya Muslim population.
Rohingya advocacy groups claim around 400 Rohingya have been killed in military operations in northern Arakan State since the Oct. 9 deaths of nine Myanmar border police officials, while Myanmar says just 86 people — 17 soldiers and 69 alleged “attackers” — have been killed.
