YANGON: Nine Myanmar police officers were injured as they sought to free officials held hostage by dozens of angry workers demanding wages and compensation after their factory was shuttered, authorities said on Thursday (Sep 18). More than 150 former staff descended on the Master Sport shoe facility on the outskirts of Yangon on Tuesday, demanding […]
Myanmar police officers injured freeing hostages in factory rally
September 22, 2014 by thiha
Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: compensation, Hostage, Kyaw Kyaw Tun, labour ministry, Master Sport shoe, Moe Wai, Myanmar, Police Officers, Protesters, South Korean-owned factory, wages, workers
Tracing the Last of Myanmar’s Once Influential Armenians
November 25, 2013 by thiha
YANGON — A hand-drawn map showed the way to the colonial teak house that my Armenian grandmother’s family left behind when the Japanese captured Yangon in 1942. My relatives are thought to have hidden jewels in the well before fleeing the family home that was reportedly turned into a brothel during the Japanese occupation. Last […]
Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: Anglo, Apostolic Church, Armenians, Barrister, Bo Aung Kyaw, Captured, Colonial Teak, Commercial Interests, Family Photographs, Ghosts, Government Official, Hidden Jewels, Hostage, Iran, japanese, Japanese Occupation, Joined, Large House, Military, Prohibited, Railway Lines, Ralf Gregory, Took Over, Uprooted
