{"id":212862,"date":"2016-07-14T18:43:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T22:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/?p=80600"},"modified":"2016-07-14T18:43:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T22:43:41","slug":"manipur-myanmar-and-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2016\/07\/14\/manipur-myanmar-and-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Manipur, Myanmar and democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou can change your friend but you cannot change your neighbours\u201d, goes a saying. If we must comment, the saying has a fair dose of truth, even if it does not qualify to be called a universal truth and the same saying applies to neighbouring States\/countries. Although there are very few corporate houses in Manipur which can make investment in Myanmar, and Manipur is, by no means, a geopolitical power by itself, people of Manipur have been closely following what are happening in Myanmar, specially the much-awaited transition towards democracy.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/manipur-myanmar-democracy\/\">Manipur, Myanmar and democracy<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/\">The Sangai Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/manipur-myanmar-democracy\/\">http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/manipur-myanmar-democracy\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;You can change your friend but you cannot change your neighbours&rdquo;, goes a saying. If we must comment, the saying has a fair dose of truth, even if it does not qualify to be called a universal truth and the same saying applies to neighbouring States\/countries. Although there are very few corporate houses in Manipur which can make investment in Myanmar, and Manipur is, by no means, a geopolitical power by itself, people of Manipur have been closely following what are happening in Myanmar, specially the much-awaited transition towards democracy.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/manipur-myanmar-democracy\/\">Manipur, Myanmar and democracy<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/\">The Sangai Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"sangaiexpress","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3942],"tags":[3971,3949,3945],"class_list":["post-212862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-sangaiexpress","hentry","category-news","category-sangaiexpress","tag-editor","tag-editorials","tag-sangaiexpress","post_format-sangaiexpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212863,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212862\/revisions\/212863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}