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Customers queue outside of a branch of the military-run Myawaddy Bank in Yangon's Yankin Township on February 16. (Frontier)
Customers queue outside of a branch of the military-run Myawaddy Bank in Yangon's Yankin Township on February 16. (Frontier)

Pension withdrawals squeeze state banks amid Civil Disobedience Movement

As the military-owned Myawaddy Bank suspends operations following a run on withdrawals, government retirees worry their next pension payments from state-owned Myanma Economic Bank won’t come.

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