
News by Country: Myanmar
22 January 2021
· Furloughed Myanmar workers required to get certificates
(Myanmar Times, 18 January 2021)
· IMF approves second emergency financial aid to Myanmar
(Myanmar Times, 15 January 2021)
· Workers protest over alleged labour violations
(Myanmar Times, 13 January 2021)
· Garment factory pays workers Kyat 200 million for shut-down
(Myanmar Times, 5 January 2021)
· Covid-19 shuts-down more than 100 garment factories
(Myanmar Times, 29 December 2020)
· Authorities urged to address discrimination against Myanmar
workers in Thailand (Myanmar
Times, 25 December 2020)
· Desperate families seek COVID cash handout
(Frontier Myanmar, 24 December 2020)
· Over 260 factories in Yangon shut down, closed temporarily or
reduce workforce this year (Eleven,
24 December 2020)
· More Than 600 Myanmar Migrants Infected in Thai COVID-19
Outbreak (The Irrawaddy, 21 December 2020)
· Myanmar government urged to ask Thailand to allows entry of
60000 workers (Myanmar
Times, 17 December 2020)
· Myanmar’s Economy Hit Hard by Second Wave of COVID-19 (Modern Diplomacy, 17 December 2020)
· Myanmar’s Economy to Start Recovering Early Next Year: World
Bank (The Irrawaddy, 16 December 2020)
· Myanmar Union Official: Factories Using Covid as Excuse to Cull
Ranks (Sourcing Journal, 14 December 2020)
· About 100,000 MoU workers face difficulty re-entering Thailand
due to Covid-19 pandemic (Eleven, 12 December
2020)
· COVID-19 Taking Huge Toll on Myanmar Manufacturing, Service
Sectors, World Bank Says (The
Irrawaddy, 8 December 2020)
· Authorities disperse crowds at Yangon shoe factory
(Myanmar Times, 8 December 2020)
· Poverty spikes in Myanmar following the second wave of pandemic
(Myanmar Times, 4 December 2020)
· Hlaingtharyar garment factory workers protest against Chinese
owner (Eleven, 3 December 2020)
· Only 20% population expected to get Covid-19 Vaccine
(Myanmar Times, 26 November 2020)
· Many in Myanmar say they didn’t get government Covid-19-payments (Myanmar Times, 24 November 2020)
· Trade union to investigate exploitation underaged workers in
Yangon bakery (Myanmar Times, 23 November
2020)
· SMEs in Myanmar struggle to survive during Covid-19 pandemic
(Myanmar Times, 19 November 2020)
· COVID-19: UNICEF provides 60,000 take-home toys to children of
frontline workers and volunteers across Myanmar
(Relief Web, 17 November 2020)
· Will Covid-19 create a 'lost generation' in Asia?
(Eleven, 17 November 2020)
·
Covid-19 second wave more severe on local firms than first
(Myanmar Times, 12 November 2020)
·
Myanmar exported garments worth $4.28 bn in Oct 1-Aug 31
(Fire2Fashion, 11 November 2020)
·
From tourism to foreign workforce digitalisation
(The Edge Markets, 9 November 2020)
·
Myanmar evacuates its citizens in Malaysia including those in
detention centers (Eleven,
7 November 2020)
· Myanmar Offers Struggling Families COVID-19 Cash
(The Irrawaddy, 5 November 2020)
· Investment in Myanmar continue to grow despite Covid-19
(Myanmar Times, 2 November 2020)
· Over 3000 Myanmar citizens from Malaysia register return (Myanmar Times, 29 October 2020)
· Health care service at workplaces for safety
(Myanmar Times, 28 October 2020)
· Myanmar sees more than 60,000 in quarantine for COVID-19
(Eleven Myanmar, 27 October 2020)
·
I have to
do this’: Myanmar garment workers forced into sex work by Covid (The
Guardian, 22 October 2020)
·
ILO says
garment industry should do more to help workers hit by COVID-19 pandemic
(CNA,
21 October 2020)
·
Myanmar’s
election fever raises risks of Covid-19 infections
(UCA
News, 20 October 2020)
·
Garment factory warned about illegal blood tests
(Myanmar Times, 13 October 2020)
·
World Bank Reports on How COVID-19 Hammered Myanmar’s
Businesses (The Irrawaddy, 13 October 2020)
·
Factories SMEs Yangon allowed reopen after passing
inspections (Myanmar Times, 10
October 2020)