Burma's Oil Rush in Magway

  • 9 years ago
Hundreds of thousands of farmers in central Myanmar's Magway division are joining an oil rush.

Huge makeshift settlements are springing up as more and more oil fields are discovered.

Families are now earning much more now as small-time oil drillers than they did as farmers.

But it's dangerous work and land disputes with the government have ended violently.

Zaw Htet went to Htan Gang oil field in central Myanmar

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