Paid a slave wage for making trainers for global brands and ignored by the authorities, workers at Taiwanese company Tsang ...

BANGKOK--An order by Myanmar’s central bank that all foreign currency in bank accounts must be converted into the local currency has many in the ... currency into kyats within one day or face ...

In deeply superstitious Myanmar, many are viewing the catastrophic earthquake ... is widely reported to have removed the local kyat currency notes of 25, 35 and 75 denominations and replaced ...

While the official exchange rate remains stuck at 2,100 to the U.S. dollar, trading of the kyat on the black market ... speak to the adaptability of many of Myanmar’s businesses and their ...

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, wages were around 200,000 kyat ... Many trade union leaders were forced to flee the country. The International Labour Organization (ILO) found that Myanmar’s ...

Meanwhile, many Burmese are fleeing the country and trying ... to hinder the country’s economic development”. Yet the kyat will not co-operate: in August, it fell as low as 7,500 per dollar ...

While a higher floor wage is essential to promoting fair working conditions in the Southeast Asian nation, the Industrial ...

By Vibhu Mishra Myanmar's spiralling human rights crisis - fuelled by relentless military violence, systemic impunity and ...