With motorbikes banned, Yangon delivery riders struggle in heatwave


A delivery man rides his bicycle during a heatwave in Yangon on April 29, 2024. Delivery riders pedal their bicycle through a punishing heatwave in Myanmar's commercial capital Yangon, where scooters and motorbikes are banned. - AFP

Yangon, April 29, 2024 (AFP) - Delivery rider Than Toe Aung pedals his bicycle through a punishing heatwave in Myanmar's commercial capital Yangon, where scooters and motorbikes are banned.

He can't afford a car, and a previous junta outlawed two-wheeled motorised vehicles for "security reasons", so the employee of the delivery app FoodPanda has no choice but to sweat his way through the streets under his own power.

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