YANGON: Hotels, harbors or mines, Myanmar’s big-ticket industries are still in the grip of military-linked tycoons, who will remain gatekeepers to the country’s opening market whoever wins Sunday’s crunch polls.

The globe’s fourth fastest-growing economy, according to the World Bank, is a tantalizing prospect to international investors but sections of it are firmly off-limits.

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