Officials in Myanmar have issued an edict that prevents Rohingyas from leaving the country. The edict comes in response to the horrific stories of Rohingya refugees being turned away from other Southeast Asian countries, and the exposure of the terrible treatment the Muslim minority has received. Speigel has published a report on the conditions in which the Rohingya live, and the Kafkaesque circumstances which prevent them from either living comfortably or leaving the country.
Hyperinflation is a difficult concept to describe verbally. Zimbabwe has experienced hyperinflation for some time, but has finally decided to scrap the Zimbabwean currency and use the US dollar or the South African rand instead. In order to retire the old currency the government is using the following exchange rate: $1 for 35,000,000,000,000,000 old dollars. It is hard to imagine that the central bank had to print a one hundred trillion dollar bank note:
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