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A driver waits for his vehicle to be refuelled at a petrol station in Yangon on May 21, 2022. (AFP)

Junta squeeze on fuel supply powers growing black market

The military regime’s rationing of fuel consumption to lower Myanmar’s import bill has fuelled illegal sales, while hoarding by businesses and profiteering by speculators have hiked the price of petrol and other goods.

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