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  • Just check out tracks like 'Egress' from his first Minus EP or his classic remix of Troy Pierce's 25 bitches.

    RA News 2009

  • Egress also helped to coordinate relief efforts after the 2008 Cyclone Nargis, which killed more than 130,000 people, earning widespread praise from international aid groups.

    Activist Worked With Military Regime Patrick Barta 2012

  • Worked with him briefly 20 years ago when I worked Emergency Egress at KSC and he was an astronaut.

    NASA's Next Administrator - Charles F. Bolden? - NASA Watch 2009

  • "I'm convinced the government is genuine," said Kyaw Yin Hlaing , an assistant professor at City University of Hong Kong and an organizer at Myanmar Egress, a Yangon-based civil-society group, who attended the weekend meetings.

    Myanmar Tackles Ethnic Conflicts Patrick Barta 2011

  • Critics noted that Egress allowed government representatives into its offices to observe participants in its activities and that Mr. Nay Win Maung once suggested Ms. Suu Kyi and her supporters should contest only 50% of the seats in the 2010 election—effectively conceding the vote, Myanmar's first in two decades—in return for the release of some political prisoners.

    Activist Worked With Military Regime Patrick Barta 2012

  • A nonpracticing medical doctor whose parents were teachers at a Myanmar military academy, Mr. Nay Win Maung rose to prominence as a co-founder of Myanmar Egress, a civil-society organization set up in 2006 by local intellectuals hoping to end the long-running stalemate between the government and dissidents such as Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

    Activist Worked With Military Regime Patrick Barta 2012

  • It is widely assumed Egress will continue its work, though the loss of Mr. Nay Win Maung deprives the group of one of its most energetic leaders.

    Activist Worked With Military Regime Patrick Barta 2012

  • Myanmar Egress Yangon reformer Nay Win Maung was believed to be 49 or 50.

    Activist Worked With Military Regime Patrick Barta 2012

  • Over time, Egress's offices became a preferred meeting point for a new generation of political activists—and one of the few places where Yangon residents felt comfortable discussing politics openly.

    Activist Worked With Military Regime Patrick Barta 2012

  • Mr. Nay Win Maung, who also headed a local newspaper and studied at Yale, envisioned Egress as the equivalent of a Washington-style think tank, helping to dream up new economic policies while creating a critical mass of young pragmatists willing to work within the system to bring change to Myanmar, whose military regime instilled a climate of fear after taking over in 1962.

    Activist Worked With Military Regime Patrick Barta 2012

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