kyats

Even if the Indian had bought his kyats from a pouch-wearing Tamil money changer on a Singapore pavement, at three or four times the official rate, that is still a lot of money to pay for a used car with a defective engine block.

Burma 1971

Even if the Indian had bought his kyats from a pouch-wearing Tamil money changer on a Singapore pavement, at three or four times the official rate, that is still a lot of money to pay for a used car with a defective engine block.

Burma 1971

Even if the Indian had bought his kyats from a pouch-wearing Tamil money changer on a Singapore pavement, at three or four times the official rate, that is still a lot of money to pay for a used car with a defective engine block.

Burma 1971

He said that "unification of the local currency kyats can be expected," and that he believed Myanmar would also soon have widespread use of credit cards.

Myanmar Considers Foreign-Exchange Overhaul 2011

Formerly, the investing company that was working here, they had the right to exchange one dollar for 6 kyats the local currency.

'No Intention to Retract' Reforms, Myanmar Official Interview Transcript 2011

Transactions here are largely based in cash and require businesspeople and even ordinary citizens to lug around unwieldy bales of Myanmar kyats—the unofficial exchange rate: about 775 kyats per dollar.

Sanctions Put Rock Band in Hard Place James Hookway 2012

The second ART (Antiretroviral Drugs) are too expensive for Myanmar patients and exceeds 2 lakhs kyatsper month and may be upto 3 lakhs kyats per month.

The Sick Struggle Under High Cost of AIDS in Myanmar 2009

A viss (1.6 kilograms; 3.5 pounds) of hair is worth between 400,000 kyats ($320) and 500,000 kyats ($400), it said.

Long-haired Women Secretly Snipped | Impact Lab 2007

In Myanmar, HIV/AIDS patients must spend 4,7000 kyats per month, announced the 55th Myanmar Medical Conference held this year at Yangon, with 1,200doctors in the crowd.

The Sick Struggle Under High Cost of AIDS in Myanmar 2009

Instead of US dollars being automatically exchanged for Burmese kyats, the aid agencies have to exchange US dollars for FECs or “foreign exchange certificates.”

In Burma, Foreign Aid Agencies Now Wrestling With Loss Of Funds 2008