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o enter into hein Tun’s realm length wraparound longyi and a taikpon ies of the newspaper he owns, the Myan-
is to go barefoot—as is the jacket, both made popular during the Brit- mar Times. he ledge of an antique drag-
custom in Myanmar—and to ish colonial era when Tun was growing up on cabinet is lined with bottles of the
step back in time. He ash- in a poor rural family. His face shows no beer, water and wine he produces. In one
Tes a warm smile as he gets up sign of sweat, though the oice is not air- framed photo, covered in a protective plas-
from his desk, on the second oor of Tun conditioned on a day when the tempera- tic wrap, Tun sits with a large group of or-
Commercial Bank in downtown Yangon, ture outside registers 37 degrees Celsius. phans, sponsored through his Tun Foun-
his seat of action. Like many local males, On his desk, amid piles of documents dation; in another, he’s chairing an Asean
he’s dressed in traditional attire: an ankle- and reports, are two laptops and cop- Banking Council meeting in 2013. On the
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