YANGON: Early bird customers of a military-owned bank queued anxiously as dawn light crept over Rangoon, after a strict new limit on daily cash withdrawals fuelled rumours of a money shortage in post-coup Myanmar.
Myawaddy Bank is among scores of military-controlled businesses in Myanmar facing boycott pressures since the generals ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi from power on February 1.
Nationwide protests have called for employees — including bank workers — to skip work, seizing up a banking sector heavily dominated by the military and its cronies ahead of the monthly payday this Friday.
For those in need of cash, it does not help that no clear…
