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On the morning of February 1, just hours before the country’s new parliament was to convene following the November election, a military coup abruptly curtailed Myanmar’s decade-long transition to democracy.
Myanmar’s state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and other leaders of the National League for Democracy (NLD) were arrested. Troops mobilised across larger cities and the military announced a year-long state of emergency. Protests were mounted all over the country followed by brutal military repression, which according to the latest reports have grown increasingly violent and deadly.
Myanmar’s democratic transition was already very slow and uncertain before the coup. The country has been ruled by a military junta since its independence from the British, in 1948. In 2007, under escalating anti-Government protests and international pressure, the Myanmar military, the so-called Tatmadaw, announced a referendum for a new constitution, which allowed the country to transition to
According to the World Bank, old-age income security is dependent on individual retirement savings or familial support, in the absence of broad-based social assistance programmes.
While the youth are most affected by Covid-19 job losses, retrenched workers aged 45 and above within the B40 group are also facing exceptional challenges remaining in and re-entering the workforce.
FIFTY-SIX year old Siti (not her real name) has been without a steady income since she lost her job last March as a canteen cook where she used to make RM80 a day.
To get by now, Siti has been making and selling kuih from her RM950-a-month rented home in the Klang Valley.