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Regime seeks economic recovery, but drops NLD reform agenda

The military regime is set to drop meaningful structural reforms from an economic recovery plan initiated by the former National League for Democracy government, and is instead promising to slash red tape in a bid to shore up collapsing business confidence.

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‘Workers have lost all their rights’: Coup and third wave leave factory workers at risk

Some factory owners have been accused of exploiting and failing to protect their employees during the latest COVID-19 outbreak, and with unions lying low since the coup, workers are unable to seek redress.

BY Frontier

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Myanmar facing economic calamity from coup and COVID: World Bank

The World Bank has warned in a new report that Myanmar faces severe economic losses and a doubling of poverty as a result of the combined impact of the coup and COVID-19, with the military regime unable to govern effectively.

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Myanmar’s post-coup cash crunch creates a shadow money trade

Mobile money agents and informal brokers have been meeting the demand for cash at a time when banks are severely limiting withdrawals, but some accuse them of profiteering by charging steep fees.

BY Frontier

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Vitriol in cyberspace for celebrities who stayed silent

၂၀၂၀ရွေးကောက်ပွဲ, 2020 Election MM

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Cash’s crown starts to slip in the business-to-business sector

While urban areas are plastered with colourful signs for fintech services catering to consumers, mobile money might first take hold in the business-to-business sector

BY Konrad Staehelin

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Myanma Railways seeks consultants to supervise Yoma Central

Staff at the state railway enterprise say they lack the expertise to supervise the US$700 million Yoma Central project and need to bring in consultants to monitor the quality and cost of work.

BY Ye Mon

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Black market fills the gap as drug quotas create shortage of opioids

Low domestic production and strict controls on the import and distribution of opioid medicines has created a shortage of pain-killing drugs, forcing some to turn to the burgeoning black market for relief.

BY Kyaw Ye Lynn

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တရားမဝင်ကုန်သွယ်မှု ကိုင်တွယ်တော့မည်ဟု ဘဏ္ဍာရေးဝန်ကြီး ကတိပြု

မှောင်ခိုလုပ်ငန်းကြောင့် အစိုးရမှာ အခွန်ဘဏ္ဍာများစွာ ဆုံးရှုံးနေရသည်။ တရားဥပဒေစိုးမိုးမှုက အားနည်းလှရာ နိုင်ငံတွင်းတရားမဝင် ဘီယာဘူးအလုံး ၅,၀၀၀ ဝင်လာလျှင် တစ်ဘူးခန့်သာ ဖမ်းမိသည့်သဘောဖြစ်နေသည်။

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