Yangon Until you are on the ground, you don’t fully realize how big Myanmar is. The city sprawls out, but is teeming with people, buses filled to the gills, sidewalks India-like with people, cars, street sellers, and hawkers with tea shops on small plastic stools serving whatever, whenever, and wherever they can fit in. Thinking …
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Oppressing the Christians in Chin and Media Dreams in the Air
Yangon Chin is a somewhat inaccessible state occupied largely by ethnic Chin’s along the western and northern mountainous areas of Myanmar strategically located along the Indian and Chinese borders of the country. The state is geographically large, but its population is hardly 500,000, and perhaps significantly less given the number of Chin who have fled, …
Nothing Easy About Organizing Unions in Myanmar
Yangon Not surprisingly, the more people we visit, the more we peel the onion and come closer to understanding the full challenges for workers and their unions in organizing in Burma. Over the first three days of meetings for example when talking to labor sources the union density has fallen from 2% or roughly 250,000 members …