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.
Under monsoon skies leaden with rain, Myanmar rice farmers despondently tend their paddy fields, doubtful the deluge will bring bountiful harvests during a fuel and fertiliser crisis caused by the Iran war.
BY AFP
