Post Tagged with: "Myanmar"

Garment workers at Korean-owned factory in Pyin Ma Bin Industrial Estate in Yangon, Myanmar. (Photo: Philip Heijmans -- cropped, filtered. Source: Myanmar Times https://www.mmtimes.com/business/9434-labour-shortages-plague-nascent-garment-sector.html)

Made in…Myanmar?

May 30, 2018 at 11:53 am

I‘ll not even pretend that I wasn’t aware of third-world sweat shops when I purchased and wore garments produced under horrible factory conditions by workers paid as little as $60 a month. Bangladesh, Malaysia, Cambodia, India and Indonesia are all home to such garment factories, and while China is certainlyRead More

Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh. (Photo by John Owens, VOA, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

The Rohingya Horror

March 21, 2018 at 11:21 am

The Rohingya, whom most of us had probably never heard of before their plight began to be shared via TV and newspapers around the world, are “the world’s most persecuted minority,” according to  Al Jazeera. They are an ethnic group, largely Muslim, that has lived for centuries in the majorityRead More