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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.

BY Frontier

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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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As fishing ban ends, authorities urged to tackle illegal boats

A precipitous decline in fishery resources prompted a three-month ban on all offshore fishing in Myanmar waters, but members of industry and civil society groups say more needs to be done to combat rampant illegal fishing.

BY Kyaw Lin Htoon

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လုပ်ငန်းအင်ပါယာကြီး တစ်ခုထူထောင်တဲ့ ပုဂံကခရိုနီ

ရန်ကုန်နဲ့ မန္တလေးက တောက်ပတဲ့ မီးရောင်တွေနဲ့ ဝေးကွာတဲ့နေရာမှာ ပုဂံဒေသခံတစ်ဦးဟာ အထက်တန်းလွှာက မိတ်ဆွေတချို့အကူအညီနဲ့ လုပ်ငန်းအင်ပါယာကြီးတစ်ခုကို ထူထောင်နိုင်လိုက်ပြီလို့ ဒေသခံတွေက ဆိုပါတယ်။

BY Ye Mon

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The ‘crony’ of Bagan builds a business empire

Far from the bright lights of Yangon and Mandalay, a Bagan local has managed to build up a business empire – with help from some friends in high places, according to residents.

BY Ye Mon

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Unhappily ever after: Myanmar’s power meter racket

The company at the centre of corruption allegations against the Ministry of Electricity and Energy has a controversial past and, potentially, a bright future.

BY Kyaw Ye Lynn

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