Myanmar Business Today
Fund to Prevent Deaths at Work Making Headway in Myanmar
A business leader has urged the organisers of an international scheme aimed at reducing deaths and injuries in global supply chains to set up a safety training school in Myanmar.The Vision Zero Fund, founded in 2015 and backed by G7, a group of the world’s ...
Local Man Opens Rakhine’s First Garment Factory ‘to Stop Migration to Other Regions’
A local entrepreneur in Rakhine has started what he says is the area’s first garment factory in a bid to prevent people emigrating from the impoverished state.Keep reading ...
Garment Industry in Denial About Its Child Labour Problem
A garment industry body has said reports that children are making clothes in Myanmar’s factories are damaging the country’s image and has urged people to view the revelations with scepticism, despite widely publicised evidence that workers as young as 14 had made clothes for foreign ...
Japanese Firms Pledge to Clean up Rivers Polluted by Dye in Textile Making Hub
Two Japanese industrial companies have made a joint proposal to build and operate a water treatment facility in the central Myanmar town of Wundwin, which suffers from polluted waterways caused by its textile dyeing industry.Keep reading ...
Singapore Firm Signs Deal to Advise on Myanmar’s Low Cost Housing Projects
A state-owned Singaporean firm has signed a deal to advise Myanmar’s construction industry as it attempts to build one million ‘affordable’ homes by 2030 under a scheme trumpeted by the NLD government.Keep reading ...
