Friday, April 20, 2012
President U Thein Sein is the person who inspires us, challenges us and changes our world. Meet the leaders who make up this year's TIME 100.
Since President U Thein Sein took office a little more than a year ago, the President of Burma, U Thein Sein, has proved himself the architect of one of the most unlikely democratic transitions anywhere in the world.
It's been an amazing balancing act. He's had to keep on board the ex-generals who still dominate government, as well as army chiefs, top businessmen, the opposition parties — including the largest, led by Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi — and a young and dynamic civil society.
U Thein Sein, 67, is trying to perform a triple act of moving toward democratic government, overhauling one of the world's most backward economies and negotiating an end to over a dozen long-standing ethnic conflicts, all while the country remains under punishing sanctions.
And whether or not he succeeds will be important not just for Burma's 55 million people but for all of Asia.
Burma was until just recently a byword for almost every early 21st century ill. But if U Thein Sein gets his way, it may soon become a model for peaceful democratic change.
Full List TIME 100 in 2012 : The List
Since President U Thein Sein took office a little more than a year ago, the President of Burma, U Thein Sein, has proved himself the architect of one of the most unlikely democratic transitions anywhere in the world.
It's been an amazing balancing act. He's had to keep on board the ex-generals who still dominate government, as well as army chiefs, top businessmen, the opposition parties — including the largest, led by Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi — and a young and dynamic civil society.
U Thein Sein, 67, is trying to perform a triple act of moving toward democratic government, overhauling one of the world's most backward economies and negotiating an end to over a dozen long-standing ethnic conflicts, all while the country remains under punishing sanctions.
And whether or not he succeeds will be important not just for Burma's 55 million people but for all of Asia.
Burma was until just recently a byword for almost every early 21st century ill. But if U Thein Sein gets his way, it may soon become a model for peaceful democratic change.
Full List TIME 100 in 2012 : The List
- Jeremy Lin
- Christian Marclay
- Viola Davis
- Salman Khan
- Tim Tebow
- E.L. James
- Louis CK
- Rihanna
- Marco Rubio
- Ali Ferzat
- René Redzepi
- Kristen Wiig
- Anthony Kennedy
- Novak Djokovic
- Ben Rattray
- Jessica Chastain
- Yani Tseng
- Raphael Saadiq
- Elinor Ostrom
- Samira Ibrahim
- José Andrés
- Ann Patchett
- Dulce Matuz
- Henrik Schärfe
- Freeman Hrabowski
- Maryam Durani
- Manal al-Sharif
- Anjali Gopalan
- Rached Ghannouchi
- Barbara Van Dahlen
- Ron Fouchier
- Donald Sadoway
- Hans Rosling
- Asghar Farhadi
- Sarah Burton
- Anonymous
- Pete Cashmore
- Cami Anderson
- Ali Babacan and Ahmet Davutoglu
- Ai-jen Poo
- Marc Andreessen
- Preet Bharara
- Robert Grant
- Andrew Lo
- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
- Alexei Navalny
- Ray Dalio
- Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani
- Chelsea Handler
- Harvey Weinstein
- Chen Lihua
- Warren Buffett
- Alice Walton
- Harold Hamm
- Sheryl Sandberg
- Sara Blakely
- Tim Cook
- Eike Batista
- Daniel Ek
- Virginia Rometty
- Barack Obama
- Goodluck Jonathan
- Xi Jinping
- Fatou Bensouda
- Christine Lagarde
- Mario Draghi
- U Thein Sein
- Ayatullah Ali Khamenei
- Mitt Romney
- Juan Manuel Santos
- Timothy Dolan
- Portia Simpson Miller
- Mario Monti
- Wang Yang
- Maria das Graças Silva Foster
- Andrew Cuomo
- Iftikhar Chaudhry
- Mamata Banerjee
- Walter Isaacson
- Ron Paul
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- Dilma Rousseff
- Erik Martin
- Cecile Richards
- Angela Merkel
- Lionel Messi
- Tilda Swinton
- Hillary Clinton
- Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and Pippa Middleton
- Adele
- Matt Lauer
- Oscar Pistorius
- Claire Danes
- Stephen Colbert
1 comments:
I, as a citizen of Myanmar, do not agree with this kind of stuff. It will not help President to perform his duties peacefully. This kind of things are one kind of giving outside pressure or tying a string around President's neck. Please remember U Ne Win. He refused Ramon Magsaysay award instantly. He fully understands about this kind of stuff.
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