The Myanmar-focused Bagan Capital investment firm told trade media outlet Just Style that, once all sanctions are cleared, annual garment exports could increase by up to 200 percent.

The military has subjected Myanmar’s people to intensifying brutality since it seized power in a coup on Feb. 1, deposing the civilian government led by Aung San Suu Kyi. More than 1,700 people ...

Japanese apparel retailer Honeys Holdings Co plans to start construction of its third factory in Myanmar this month, marking a rare foreign investment in the country since a military coup. TOKYO ...

Myanmar Garment Manufacturers Association (MGMA)’s managing director Aye Mi Shein explains that out of the three major regions hit by the earthquake (Mandalay, Sagaing and Nay Pyi Taw region), most ...

Protesters in Myanmar have taken to stringing up women's clothing on lines across the streets to slow down police and soldiers because walking beneath them is traditionally considered bad luck for ...

The community prepared small clothing for the family, assuming they'd be small in stature like many of Myanmar's people. Which didn't work out so well for the seven Thawnghmung children.

The European Union ended 16-year-old trade sanctions against Myanmar because of labor-rights improvements in the Asian country, whose clothing exports to Europe may be boosted by the EU step.

Although the majority of Myanmar’s 700,000 garment workers remain unorganized, unions have played a significant role in shaping their working conditions. Mass strikes and union demands led to ...

For the small Burmese American community in California, the coup has stoked fears that Myanmar’s decades-long efforts toward limited democracy and individual freedom could be over. The number of ...

Friday's 7.7 earthquake was one of the strongest to hit Myanmar in the past century. Thousands of miles away here in the Bay Area, the Burmese community is doing what they can do help. Here's how ...