Trucks wait to be weighed along the road leading to the Friendship Bridge No.2 near the town of Mae Sot on the Thai-Myanmar border, on October 29, 2020. (AFP)

Myanmar migrants and refugees fuel freight services boom

Cross-border cargo companies are seeing a surge in business, which is also good news for the military regime collecting taxes and checkpoint bribes.

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