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The Bangkok Post
The Bangkok Post
Many parts of Myanmar are suffering worsening power cuts that are affecting water supplies and halting online classes, compounding the misery for residents following the economic turmoil since the military seized power last year. Photographs on social media showed people queuing for water from a tanker truck in several Yangon districts. “Every day I’m worried about electricity because without (it) there is no water. We cannot cook food and my children cannot attend online school,” said Tin, 55, who lives in Yangon, where many pumps supplying water to buildings in the country’s biggest city hav…