Supreme Court of Myanmar the country's new capital since 2006. In February 2011, President Thein Sein nominated Htun Htun Oo as Chief Justice. The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw appointed his nomination on 17 February 2011. Supreme Court of Myanmar The Supreme Court of Myanmar () is the highest judicial forum and final court of appeal under the Constitution of Myanmar, existing as an independent judicial entity, alongsite the legislative and executive branches. The Court is legally mandated to have 7 to 11 judges, including a Chief Justice. In the Union, there shall be a Supreme Court of the Union. Without affecting the powers of the Constitutional
History of the Jews in Myanmar nationalist Burmese government. One synagogue survives in Yangon, the capital, and in the 21st century, it attracts an increasing number of tourists. The first recorded Jew in the country was Solomon Gabirol, who served as a commander in the army of King Alaungpaya in the 18th century. But it was in the mid-19th century, during the British colonial period, that Jewish merchants from Iraq and India began establishing sizable communities in Rangoon and Mandalay. The Baghdadi Jews had emigrated from Iraq to escape persecution and being subject to pogroms; they comprised most of the immigrants. Cochin Jews and the Bene