Description:
"Bangladeshi mobile phones flood into Burma?s Arakan State...
Burmese junta-backed businessmen strike cross-border deals, and human rights workers can speak directly to witnesses at the scene—Bangladeshi mobile phones are slowly opening up northern Arakan State. Even the much-abused Burmese Muslims of Maungdaw Township are said to be developing a taste for mobile technology. The slow trickle of handsets that first began traveling east over the Bangladesh-Burma border at Teknaf and other crossings 18 months ago has now reportedly turned into a flood. Just don?t tell the local authorities you?ve got one..."
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" Vol. 14, No. 5
Date of Publication:
2006-05-00
Date of entry:
2006-12-28
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- Individual Documents
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Language:
English