YANGON — Four executives from supermarket chains in Myanmar, including a Japanese joint-venture official, were arrested for selling rice at inflated prices, state media said on July 1, as the war-torn country's ruling junta struggles to stabilise a spiralling economy.
PUBLISHED ONYANGON — Four executives from supermarket chains in Myanmar, including a Japanese joint-venture official, were arrested for selling rice at inflated prices, state media said on July 1, as the war-torn country's ruling junta struggles to stabilise a spiralling economy.
In Tokyo, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told reporters that a Japanese national is being questioned by police in Myanmar's commercial capital Yangon. The junta-run Myanmar newspaper said those arrested included an executive from supermarket chain Aeon Orange, a joint venture between Japan's Aeon and Yangon-based Creation Myanmar.
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