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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Myanmar to resume issuing tourist visas after 2-year hiatus

Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Myanmar announced Thursday it will resume issuing visas for visitors in an effort to help its moribund tourism industry, devastated by the coronavirus pandemic and violent political unrest.

Starting on Sunday, tourist “e-Visas” will be provided online in a move also intended to harmonize tourism with neighboring countries, according to a government notice in the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper.

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