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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Jade traders in Mandalay say the use of WeChat by Chinese brokers is hurting business and want the use of the social media app to be banned.
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မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ဒီမိုကရေစီကြိုးပမ်းမှုကို ထောက်ခံသည့်အတွက် ထောင်ဒဏ်ကျခံခဲ့ရသော အမျိုးသမီးများသည် သူတို့ခံစားရသည်ထက်ပို၍ အသိအမှတ် ပြုခံထိုက်ရှိသူများဖြစ်သည်။
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