Beh Lih Yi and Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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* Bank, remittance services disrupted after coup
* Remittances sustain livelihoods of millions
* More than four million Myanmar migrants abroad
By Beh Lih Yi and Nanchanok Wongsamuth
KUALA LUMPUR/BANGKOK, March 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – S ince arriving in Thailand a few years ago, Myanmar migrant worker Own Mar Shwe had been sending money home every month for her family to buy food and medicine.
That came to an abrupt halt last month.
Like millions of Myanmar migrants who work abroad and send their earnings back home to dependents, the Feb. 1 coup has cut a lifeline for her family with bank and remittance services heavily disrupted.
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