Garment manufacturing accounts for approximately 60 percent of proposed investments in the Thilawa Special Economic Zone (SEZ), according to the zone’s Public Holdings chair Win Aung, who also heads the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry. Win Aung said that another 15 percent of bids are for electronics manufacture, while auto …
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Power cuts force factories to close
Factories in Rangoon’s industrial zone are closing because of government imposed power cuts to combat widespread electricity shortages.
Shan army seizes ‘heroin factories’
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Union says 100 Magway and Sagaing garment workers are being laid off
The Federation of General Workers Myanmar (FGWM) announced that more than 100 workers holding Sagaing and Magway region IDs have been threatened and fired from a Chinese-owned garment factory that produces for H&M. According to the announcement issued on Aug. 18, Zhejiang Tongli Clothing (Myanmar) Co., Ltd, located in Hlaing Thar Yar’s Shwe Lin Ban …
Dry zone residents cry job discrimination in Yangon industrial zone
Workers from Sagaing and Magway regions have been denied jobs and are facing layoffs from some factories in Yangon Industrial Zone, according to sources from the labor community. A worker from Hlaing Thar Yar Industrial Zone told DVB that some people holding IDs with 5 and 8 registration numbers, the numbers corresponding with Sagaing and …