The surprise decision to fix the rate of the kyat has harmed the competitiveness of Myanmar’s rice exports, traders say, and orders from abroad are already beginning to decline.
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The surprise decision to fix the rate of the kyat has harmed the competitiveness of Myanmar’s rice exports, traders say, and orders from abroad are already beginning to decline.
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Despite the relative lack of armed conflict in Rakhine State in recent months, tens of thousands of internally displaced people still languish in camps where food shortages are becoming more common.
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Another jump in fuel prices since Russia invaded Ukraine has brought extra suffering for the people of Myanmar as they struggle with economic fallout from the coup and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In 2017, the fuel market was opened up to foreign competition to great fanfare – so why have investors stayed away?
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Myanmar U-19 striker San Thaw Thaw fled from her family's paddy fields to follow her footballing dreams, inspired by her girlhood hero Wayne Rooney.
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In 2017, the fuel market was opened up to foreign competition to great fanfare – so why have investors stayed away?
BY Thomas Kean
Laws made in Nay Pyi Taw are threatening the customary land tenure practices that have sustained the Naga for generations in their homeland on the Indian border.
Recent prison riots were fuelled by the angst of prisoners serving long sentences for often minor drug offences and the apparent arbitrariness of the president’s Thingyan pardons.
The bigger story from the Belt and Road Forum appears to have been what Myanmar didn’t sign, rather than what it did.
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