YANGON: Zaw Moe Ko was happy that his boss in Myanmar’s commercial centre of Yangon pays him in dollars – until the pandemic struck. Now he can’t get rid of them fast enough.
“I feel safer now when I have kyat rather than US dollars, ” he said, in what’s become a more widespread vote of confidence in the local currency.
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