the burmese way to socialism spawned a huge black market,known initially as corporation number 24 and later as number 23 .it was indians and chinese who ran corporation 24 .of the chinese who left,many became prosperous in their new domicile ตัวอย่าง is the ho family,owners of the biggest gem and jewellery empire in southeast asia . a symbol of whose remarkable success is the 55-storey jewellery trade centre on silom road in bangkok apart,singapore received many chinese departees from burma,followed by australia and southern califonia .another outflow of chinese occurred in 1982, when new citizenship legislation discrimination against people of foreign origin made life harder for the chinese and many left the country to resettle in taiwan,hong kong,australia and america