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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Thakhin Kai Bwor is the editor of the Myanmar Gazette, the only Burmese-language newspaper in the U.S. For many readers, it's also a how-to guide for life in America.

But “old wounds have resurfaced,” she says. In Myanmar’s 1988 Uprising, when Joe was 7, she was tear-gassed while exiting school and later witnessed students killed by soldiers.

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.

Why Burmese hip-hop is inevitably political Under Myanmar's military junta, hip-hop was seen as transgressive and rebellious May 31st 2016 By N.G.