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BANGKOK/YANGON -- Myanmar's City Mart Holdings has embarked on an ambitious expansion of its convenience store business, taking advantage of the opportunity afforded by the vacuum left after stagnant investments by foreign multinationals.
It is 4:30 p.m. in Yangon. The searing heat has subsided just enough to make it feasible to exercise outside. I exit my third-story downtown apartment into a staircase cloaked in darkness. With no electric power, a slither of daylight at the foot of the stairwell is all there is to guide me.
“Join us,” John Paw, 27, of the Karenni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF), one of the largest PDFs in Myanmar that supports local ethnic armed groups, told This Week in Asia.
BANGKOK/YANGON -- Myanmar's military government said it will exempt women for the time being from mandatory conscription set to begin in late April, in what may be a response to public outcry over the move.
BANGKOK/YANGON -- The number of electric vehicles in Myanmar has increased more than sixfold in a year as the military regime exempts EVs from tariffs and imposes an import ban against gasoline-powered autos.
For more than three years, Myanmar’s biggest cities have remained under the unyielding grip of the military junta. But the streets of places like Yangon were uncharacteristically quiet Monday evening as a sense of fear pervaded the country.
BANGKOK/YANGON -- Myanmar's shadow government is accusing employment companies of helping the military regime's funding by assisting in the collection of taxes from Myanmar workers who have fled abroad.
