Prolonged electricity outages during this year’s hot season have taken a toll on businesses already struggling with rising costs and shortages of materials and labour, but the junta lacks a credible plan to fill the power gap.
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
