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THE recent election in Myanmar (formerly Burma) has resulted in an overall majority for the party led by Aung San Suu Kyi.
1. Her party also won a majority in the 1990 general election but the military government nullified the results.
2. In the period from 1989-2010 Aung San Suu Kyi was under house arrest for 15 of the 21 years.
3. In 1989 Burma changed its name to Myanmar. The capital also changed its name from Rangoon to Yangon but in 2006 moved to Nay Pyi Taw.
4. The currency unit in Myanmar is the kyat which is divided into 100 pyas.
5. The only Nobel Prize ever awarded to Burma was Aung San Suu Kyi’s Peace Prize in 1991.
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6. Burma/Myanmar has competed in all Summer Olympics since 1948 but has never won a medal.
7. Myanmar, Liberia and the USA are the only countries that have not adopted metric units as its official system of measurement.
8. To get a waiter’s attention in a restaurant in Myanmar, diners make a kissing sound.
9. The traditional sport in Myanmar is chinlone, which is a non-competitive combination of dance and football with no opposing team.
10. Most pet Burmese cats descend from a female cat, Wong Mau, brought to the USA in 1930.
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