Twenty-seven-year-old War Nu left her village in central Myanmar at the end of last year bound for Japan. She had borrowed nearly $3,000 to pay an agent for a job in the garments industry here, lured not only by the offer of much higher wages but also by the chance to learn new skills in […]
Manufacturers migrating en masse to Myanmar
September 23, 2014 by
Myanmar has been attracting a great deal of attention these days from Korean manufacturers seeking to build plants abroad. The Southeast Asian nation, which was once isolated from the rest of the world under its decades-long military dictatorship, has recently opened its doors to the outside world. The country has an ample supply of cheap […]
