Sandar Soe News Today

Granting visas for the junta would contradict New Zealand's support for democracy in Myanmar, say local members of the community.

By Rayssa Almeida of RNZ People from Myanmar living in New Zealand are urging the Government to deny visas for officials of the military junta attending an...

As a garment professional, she has worked both in Myanmar and across the border in neighboring Thailand. Myanmar’s trade union movement became legal in 2012. Currently, she said, union leaders and workers are torn between sympathy for factories that are losing business with the cancellations of orders from global buyers, worries about the spread of the coronavirus, and anger that manufacturers have also been using Covid-19 as an excuse to shut down, and open instead at a new locations, with ...