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    The Myanmar Dilemma: Aid or Democracy? by MYINT-U, THANT

    Published in New perspectives quarterly (01-07-2008)
    “…Myint-U comments on the challenges that several UN agencies and international charities have faced in helping nation's most vulnerable people. Although the…”
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    The Making of Modern Burma by Thant, Myint-U

    Published 2001
    “…Burma has often been portrayed as a timeless place, a country of egalitarian Buddhist villages, ruled successively by autocratic kings, British colonialists…”
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    The making of modern Burma by Myint-U, Thant

    Published 05-06-2012
    “…Burma has often been portrayed as a timeless place, a country of egalitarian Buddhist villages, ruled successively by autocratic kings, British colonialists…”
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    The Burmese ways to socialism by Aung-Thwin, Maureen, Myint-U, Thant

    Published in Third world quarterly (01-01-1992)
    “…Peculiarities of Burmese socialism, deeply rooted in xenophobic and autarkic past; beyond the impasse caused by violent unrest of 1988; Buddhist socialism;…”
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    A Burmese View of World Tensions by Thant, U

    “…Dedication to parliamentary democracy and aversion to totalitarianism characterize the approach of Burma and her leaders to national and international…”
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    Brachytherapy and radical prostatectomy in patients with early prostate cancer by Ferreira, Adriana Souza Sérgio, Guerra, Maximiliano Ribeiro, Lopes, Humberto Elias, Lima, U-Thant Mendonça, Vasconcelos, Yara Abrão, Teixeira, Maria Teresa Bustamante

    “…this study analyzes the survival of prostate cancer patients cared for at a hospital in Minas Gerais, Brazil according to one of the following treatments:…”
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    Roads to Mandalay by Thant, Myint-U

    Published in New statesman (1996) (05-03-2007)
    “…Burma's colonial days are long gone. Here, a former senior United Nations officer and author of "The River of Lost Footsteps", a personal history of Burma,…”
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    Merdaka by Myint-U, Thant

    Published in TLS, the Times Literary Supplement (11-05-2007)
    “…Reviews "Forgotten Wars: The End of Britain's Asian Empire", a masterful new history by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper. The book follows from the author's…”
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    Journal Article Book Review
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    Myanmar’s youth hold the country’s future in their hands by Myint-U, Thant

    Published in FT.com (12-02-2021)
    “…The writer is the author most recently of ‘The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st century’ The Myanmar coup was…”
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    Newspaper Article
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    Disgerminoma Cerebral by Adriana Souza Sérgio Ferreira, U-Thant Mendonça Lima, Carlos Eduardo Amaral Pereira Silva, Sandra Marcia Carvalho Ribeiro Costa, Cibelle Ferreira Louzada, Sabrina Cristina Araújo Medanha

    Published in H.U. revista (01-02-2010)
    “…Disgerminoma cerebral é um raro tumor de células germinativas que se origina em um sítio extragonadal. Representa aproximadamente 3% dos tumores intracranianos…”
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    Myanmar must weigh up the extent of its dependence on China by Myint-U, Thant

    Published in FT.com (13-01-2020)
    “…The Chinese were alarmed to see ethnic insurgent leaders travelling to Washington and top American officials visiting border areas to discuss human rights. For…”
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    The crisis of the burmese state and the foundations of british colonial rule in upper burma (1853-1900) by Myint-U, Thant

    Published 01-01-1995
    “…This dissertation aims to explore social and political changes in Upper Burma in the late nineteenth century. In particular, the dissertation examines Burmese…”
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    Dissertation
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    War and occupation by Myint-U, Thant

    Published in The Making of Modern Burma (26-03-2001)
    “…The colonial officer and writer V.C. Scott O'Conner, who had lived in Upper Burma in the 1890s explained: ‘The Burmese Court … were too proud and too weak to…”
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    Book Chapter
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    A colonial society by Myint-U, Thant

    Published in The Making of Modern Burma (26-03-2001)
    “…From the fall of Mandalay to the turn of the century, the Kingdom of Ava was reintegrated with its erstwhile southern frontier as well as its old imperial…”
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    The grand reforms of King Mindon by Myint-U, Thant

    Published in The Making of Modern Burma (26-03-2001)
    “…The Second Anglo-Burmese War had shattered conservative forces at the Court of Ava and ushered in the forward-looking and modernising reign of King Mindon. The…”
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