By the end of 2021, peak demand on the country’s electricity grid had jumped more than 7% over the year before. Facing civil unrest and blackouts, the government throttled the power supply of the miners it once welcomed, and the country’s miners are looking to relocate, further concentrating Bitcoin mining computing power in the U.S. and Russia.

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More than five days, and the supplier will be cut from Shein’s supplier roster. That cutthroat manufacturing schedule is driving Shein’s revolution in retail supply chains. Fast-fashion giants like Zara are on a 14-day turnaround schedule. As part of Shein’s process, designers will often source pictures from social media and send them to the company’s internal buyers. From original design to the arrival of a package at a customer’s doorstep in the U.S., the entire process can take as little as one month.

That leaves just a few foreign telecoms firms, including Qatar’s Ooredoo and Vietnam’s Viettel, operating in Myanmar amid crackdowns on mobile activity, following a military coup in the country in February 2021. Myanmar accounted for 7% of Telenor’s earnings in 2020, and the company had been one of the biggest foreign investors in Myanmar, but reported a $738 million loss on its operations there in May.