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Fund to Prevent Deaths at Work Making Headway in Myanmar
A business leader has urged the organisers of an international scheme aimed at reducing deaths and injuries in global supply chains to set up a safety training school in Myanmar.The Vision Zero Fund, founded in 2015 and backed by G7, a group of the world’s ...
Local Man Opens Rakhine’s First Garment Factory ‘to Stop Migration to Other Regions’
A local entrepreneur in Rakhine has started what he says is the area’s first garment factory in a bid to prevent people emigrating from the impoverished state.Keep reading ...
Garment Industry in Denial About Its Child Labour Problem
A garment industry body has said reports that children are making clothes in Myanmar’s factories are damaging the country’s image and has urged people to view the revelations with scepticism, despite widely publicised evidence that workers as young as 14 had made clothes for foreign ...
Japanese Firms Pledge to Clean up Rivers Polluted by Dye in Textile Making Hub
Two Japanese industrial companies have made a joint proposal to build and operate a water treatment facility in the central Myanmar town of Wundwin, which suffers from polluted waterways caused by its textile dyeing industry.Keep reading ...
Singapore Firm Signs Deal to Advise on Myanmar’s Low Cost Housing Projects
A state-owned Singaporean firm has signed a deal to advise Myanmar’s construction industry as it attempts to build one million ‘affordable’ homes by 2030 under a scheme trumpeted by the NLD government.Keep reading ...
Farmland to be returned to Mandalay farmers
More than 768.9 hectares (1900 acres) of farmland seized by government departments during the years of former governments in Mandalay Region will be returned to the owners, said Dr Soe Than, Mandalay Region Minister for Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation.Keep reading ...
Mandalay workers vow to continue protest
Without an amicable settlement in sight, Kan Kaung Chin Yadanar factory workers have vowed to continue their sit-in protest at the factory entrance in Bal Lin village of Mandalay’s Singaing township.Keep reading ...
MOEAF requests for lifting of worker ban to Malaysia
The Myanmar Overseas Employment Agencies Federation (MOEAF) has urged the Myanmar government to lift its temporary suspension on sending workers to Malaysia, according to MOEAF officials.Keep reading ...
134 mining blocks to expire this month
The Myanma Gems Enterprise under the Ministry of Resources and Environmental Conservation announced that a total of 134 authorised mining blocks in the country’s gemstone tracts are going to expire within this month.Keep reading ...
Thilawa extends to Zone B
The Thilawa Special Economic Zone (SEZ), involving more than US$ 1 billion investment, will be extended to Zone B and construction of infrastructures will be completed by mid-2018, SEZ Management Committee Chair U Set Aung told the media.Keep reading ...
