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 […]
Indian cold pills pour over remote border to fuel Myanmar narcotics boom
August 10, 2016 by
Five years ago, when cold pills first trickled across Myanmar’s untamed border with India, many local officials were baffled. Where was this medicine going, and why were smugglers so interested in it? Today, the cross-border trickle has become a torrent and everyone knows why the Indian-made pills are so valuable: they are bound for secret laboratories in […]
U.S. removes prominent Myanmar businessman U Win Aung from sanctions list
April 24, 2015 by
WASHINGTON – The United States removed a prominent businessman from its Myanmar sanctions list on Thursday, in spite of doubts about reforms in the Southeast Asian country. Win Aung, the head of Myanmar’s chamber of commerce whose Dagon International construction firm won contracts to help build the country’s nine-year-old capital of Naypyitaw, was removed from […]
