CONFLICT● ELEVATEDAug 7 · Aug 7, 2026, 10:35 AM
Myanmar touts economic potential but is it pie in the sky with it still at war?
South China Morning Post
Rina left Myanmar shortly after the 2021 coup as military violence escalated against pro-democracy protesters like herself and the economy of her country, once a Southeast Asian frontier that had flickered with promise, ground to a virtual halt. Now in Bangkok, the 21-year-old has found work in a cafe, a regular, albeit low-salaried income, the minimum required by the millions of her age group forced to survive outside a domestic economy in ruins, where civil war has killed an estimated 100,000...
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