Wares pictured at a gold shop in Yangon in June of this year. (Frontier)

After the gold rush: How the junta created, and then crushed, a surge in smuggling

The regime’s foreign exchange controls sparked a frenzy in gold smuggling to India, but since mid-May it has turned to familiar tactics – intimidation and onerous red tape – to control the trade.

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