A passport office pictured in Yangon in 2019. (Frontier)

Exodus from Myanmar as cost-of-living crisis bites

Workers and students from all walks of life are fleeing Myanmar amid a collapse in the country’s job market, a plummeting kyat and massive inflation in the price of basic goods.

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