Myanmar reopens foreign work applications amid draft turmoil

Halt lifted after less than a week following confusion over impact

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Young people line up at the Japanese Embassy in Yangon in March. 

Nikkei staff writers

BANGKOK/YANGON -- Myanmar's military government on Monday resumed processing permit requests for male citizens seeking to work abroad, ending a short-lived halt imposed in an apparent effort to curb a surge in young adults trying to flee conscription.

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