2015 Event Myanmar President Thein Sein implements a population control law requiring women to wait three years between children; critics believe the law can be used to oppress women as well as minority religion and ethnic populations in the country 2013 Event The United Kingdom is visited by Thein Sein, the President of Burma 2012 Event Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi and Thein Sein are listed first on 'Foreign Policy' magazine's 2012 Top 100 Global Thinkers 2012 Event Burmese President Thein Sein and National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi meet U.S. President Barack Obama, the country's first visit from a sitting U.S. President 2012 Event In a move to demonstrate promised reforms are taking place, Thein Sein, President of Burma, changes nine cabinet ministers 2011 Event China asks Myanmar to protect Chinese corporate interests after Burma's President Thein Sein shut down the Myitsone Dam project 2011 Event After a rare public outcry, President Thein Sein of Burma decides to halt the controversial Myitsone Dam project 1988 Event Muang Muang succeeds General Sein Lwin as President of Burma 1988 Event General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as President of Burma 1965 Death Heinrich Barth, Swiss philosopher (Das Sein in der Zeit), dies 1905 Event Frank Wedekind's "Hidada, oder Sein und Haben," premieres in Munich
