Myanmar travellers take to the trains as fuel prices rise

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Myanmar’s ageing railway stations are bustling with life, crowded with passengers as surging fuel prices due to the Middle East war drive commuters to choose trains over costly planes and cars.On a journey from the country’s largest city Yangon to the capital Naypyidaw, Agence France-Presse journalists sat in air-conditioned carriages full of travellers napping and sharing tea, fried rice and instant noodles.First class adult train tickets cost 19,000 kyats (US$9), while the cheapest bus fares...