Winds of change tempt home Myanmar exiles
- Published: 14 Feb 2012 at 19.32
- Online news: Asia
Dramatic changes sweeping through Myanmar are luring back some of the country's millions-strong diaspora to help rebuild their impoverished homeland, in a reversal of a decades-long brain drain.
Relatives greet Myanmar academic Aung Naing Oo (centre) at Yangon airport on his return from two decades of exile. Dramatic changes sweeping through Myanmar are luring back some of the country's millions-strong diaspora to help rebuild their impoverished homeland, in a reversal of a decades-long brain drain.
Aung Naing Oo had not set foot in the country formerly known as Burma for almost a quarter century since escaping through malaria-infested jungle into Thailand after the army brutally crushed student protests in 1988.
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