A “mafia” of recruitment agents is trapping Myanmar migrants to Thailand in debt bondage despite a 2017 law meant to fight exploitation in the kingdom’s notoriously shadowy job market, activists and workers say. Migrant labour — much of it from Myanmar — has propped up Thailand’s economy for years, with foreigners working everywhere from factories […]
Extortion and abuse: Myanmar workers arrive debt-laden in Thailand
October 9, 2018 by Thiha
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Handicrafts Prospects Good, but Low Price, Illegal Exports Hurt
January 20, 2016 by Thiha
Myanmar has a long tradition of producing handicrafts ranging from wood carving to lacquerware to sword making, but this has been slow to turn into an organised industry even as the market for these items has risen. Myanmar’s handicraft market for both local and foreign buyers has grown in the last couple of years, and […]
Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: ART, Aung Wood Tun, Bogyoke Market, galleries, handicraft, Myanmar, shopping malls, Trade Improvement Department, tradition, trafficked, U Maung Maung Aung, U Myint Soe
