Lawmakers will now be paid monthly salaries of between one million and 1.6 million kyat (US$1,000- $1,600), up from just 300,000 kyat per month.

Lawmakers will now be paid monthly salaries of between one million and 1.6 million kyat (US$1,000- $1,600), up from just 300,000 kyat per month.
Burmese President Thein Sein has offered to take a pay cut from his current salary of 5 million kyat (US$5,000), the amount currently approved by parliament.
Since Thein Sein’s reformist government took power two years ago, labourers across Burma have been striking for better pay