
News by Country: Myanmar
5 February 2021
·
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)
·
Myanmar trade union urges government to be decisive
Yangon factory workers wages (Myanmar
Times, 8 October 2020)
·
EU fund disperses US$4bn in Myanmar, but problems
persist (Eco Textile, 7 October 2020)
· Myanmar:
Election Fundamentally Flawed (Human Rights Watch, 5
October 2020)
· RETURNEES
FROM THAILAND: 338 MYANMAR MIGRANT WORKERS RETURN FROM THAILAND (Myanmaritv,
4 October 2020)
· How Will
Myanmar’s Clothing Factories and Their Employees Cope with a Second Lockdown? (The
Irrawaddy, 3 October 2020)
· Bilateral
cooperation ‘only way’ to resolve repatriation issue, Myanmar Minister tells
General Assembly (UN News, 29 September 2020)
· Myanmar
government distribute cash workers without social security (Myanmar
Times, 27 September 2020)
· No pay
for Yangon factory workers until government instructions are released (Myanmar
Times, 23 September 2020)
·
Myanmar government commences second K100B loan
business (Myanmar Times, 23 September 2020)
·
Yangon given less 24 hours to lockdown, businesses to
work from home (Myanmar Times, 20 September 2020)
·
Over 200 Nepalis rescued and repatriated from
Malaysian detention centres (The Kathmandu Post,
18 September 2020)
·
Health minister: Over 600 healthcare workers infected
with Covid-19 since February (Malay Mail, 17
September 2020)
·
COVID-19 Fuels Discrimination Toward Foreigners,
Vulnerable Groups in Asia, Survey Finds
(Benar News, 17 September 2020)
·
Malaysian prisoners may face 'forced labour' on palm
oil plantations (The Guardian, 16 September 2020)
· Kachin
women’s group speaks out on how the Myanmar military profits from deadly jade
mines (ASEAN Today, 10 September 2020)
· Myanmar
moves step closer to new bids on China-backed belt and road project (Straits
Times, 9 September 2020)
· Myanmar
Extends Tax Deadline Until End of Year to Aid COVID-Hit Businesses (The
Irrawaddy, 8 September 2020)
· Election
countdown starts in Myanmar under coronavirus shadow (Straits
Times, 8 September 2020)
· Border
Security Tightened after Covid-19 Cases Surge in Myanmar (CTN News,
8 September 2020)
· To Fight
the Coronavirus, Myanmar Needs a Cease-Fire in Rakhine
(Foreign
Policy, 3 September 2020)
· Japan
will give emergency loan to response crisis over COVID-19
(Eleven,
3 September 2020)
· Thai
authorities detain illegal Myanmar migrant workers (UCA News,
31 August 2020)
· Companies
asked to delay bringing in workers from covid-hit Myanmar (The Bangkok
Post, 28 August 2020)
· At Least
10 UN, INGO Workers Hit by COVID-19 in Myanmar’s Rakhine State (The
Irrawaddy, 28 August 2020)
·
More Myanmar workers suffer abuse in Thailand
(Myanmar Times, 27 August 2020)
·
Myanmar receives more overseas financial support to
combat Covid-19 (Myanmar Times, 26 August 2020)
· Myanmar
expands Rakhine virus lockdown to cover one million (The
Jakarta Post, 26 August 2020)
· 16
Myanmar migrant workers arrested at Thai-Malaysian border (Pattaya
Mail, 25 August 2020)
·
Myanmar government reopens Japan overseas career
training centre (Myanmar Times, 20 August 2020)
· Three
pregnant Myanmar women detained in Thailand (Myanmar Times, 18
August 2020)
· EU Myan
Ku Fund pays over 45,000 Myanmarese workers (Fibre2Fashion, 13
August 2020)
· Garment
workers seen losing up to US$5.8 billion in wages during coronavirus (Eco
Business, 13 August 2020)
· Garment
factories are using COVID-19 to crackdown on trade unions
(Thomson
Reuters, 10 August 2020)