Keeping check: Local workers keeping track of supplies at the docks at the Thilawa Port, Yangon.
THE whirr of the ship’s crane engine – interspersed with loud beeps as it moved its cargo – filled the night, mashing up with the buzz of workers moving boxes down by the docks.
But one sound cut through all of that just after midnight on Friday: a man’s voice on a hailer, yelling out commands in Malay.
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