Major Myanmar-China border crossing partially reopens

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China allows Myanmar to export food and drink via the Muse-Ruili checkpoint at the moment. Read more at straitstimes.com.

YANGON - A Myanmar-China border crossing vital to trade has partially reopened, an official said on Sunday, after years of a pandemic-prompted closure.

One of Muse town’s border gates opened on Saturday at 7am, according to an official in Myanmar’s northern Shan state. “China only allowed us to export food and drink at the moment,” Mr Min Thein said Sunday. But he said they were not permitted to send over economic mainstays – including rice, broken rice, beans and watermelons.The Kyinsankyawt checkpoint partially reopened under similar circumstances in May last year, according to state media.

 

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