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Middle East crisis fuels Myanmar's crude conflict
Rising tensions in the Middle East are drawing attention to Myanmar’s small-scale oil industry, where local prospectors operate crude-pumping derricks in Magway. The oil trade is becoming entangled with the country’s civil war, though details remain limited.
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