"Myanmar is winning more foreign friends while international criticism of the current and previous government?s abysmal human rights records has all but ceased. Old adversaries in the United States and European Union have scrapped - or are planning to scrap - economic sanctions against the regime, and big-time multinational companies are preparing to lunge into what many seems to believe is Asia?s last investment frontier. A nearly unanimous Western world has heaped praise on President Thein Sein?s supposed moves towards "democratic reform" and "national reconciliation". But what has actually changed and what?s behind the hype?..."