Under tight security, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak made the first visit of a Korean leader to Myanmar in three decades on 14 May.

With lowest wages in the region, workers in factories established with foreign investment in Myanmar go on strike due to extremely low wages in 2012.

In the time of new government, about 50,000 autos were imported according to old car exchange program. However, nearly 98 percent of people in Yangon are still in distress on crowded old buses and taxis.

According to the President’s Office website, President U Thein Sein said at the meeting hall of Presidential Office in Nay Pyi Taw on the morning 11 May that the government officials must carried out remarkable and prominent changes for the development of the State.