By A WSJ Staff Reporter YANGON, Myanmar—Moves by Myanmar's military regime to loosen its grip on the impoverished nation's once-mighty rice industry in advance of an election this year have raised cautious hopes for the nation's economy. After years of tight control and a 2008 cyclone that devastated Myanmar's key rice-growing region, the regime last year granted private rice-export licenses for the first time in several years and allowed the formation of a private rice-industry...
Full Story: Wall Street Journal
