Honeys Holdings, a Japanese clothing retailer that manufactures much of its product line in Myanmar, has decided that low labor costs outweigh the risks of doing business in a volatile country.
Honeys Holdings, a Japanese clothing retailer that manufactures much of its product line in Myanmar, has decided that low labor costs outweigh the risks of doing business in a volatile country.
A record number of political prisoners – almost 11,500 – are detained in Myanmar’s jails, but despite inhumane conditions and brutal punishment they continue to defy the junta.
Scheduled cuts to Myanmar’s shaky electricity supply over the past week to take pressure off the country’s strained power grid have failed to remedy dire shortages, sources said Friday, as activists warned that the junta’s failure to restore power distribution could cost hundreds of thousands of jobs. More than 13 months after the military seized…