SAW YAN NAING finds that despite the difficulties facing Shan migrants seeking work in Thailand, their numbers are increasing.
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What is chance for education for migrant worker from Burma?
October 20th, 2009Using Palm Oil for Sexual Enhancement Leads to Pain, Embarrassment
October 12th, 2009
Burmese patients at a clinic in Mae Sot undergo painful infections and operations because of injecting palm oil for sexual enhancement.
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Burmese Democracy Songs
October 10th, 2009
The Durgas performed live in Mae Sot to celebrate Aung San Suu Kyi’s birthday and to show solidarity with Burma’s political prisoners.
Maung Weik
October 10th, 2009
Another of Burma’s young business barons, Maung Weik founded the Maung Weik & Family Co, which first gained prominence a decade ago and has since become the biggest importer of steel and gilding glue—used in the building and maintenance of Burma’s many pagodas. While his company has earned much of its profits from the development and construction sectors, Maung Weik also speculated heavily in the futures markets (beans and pulses) for several years until profits flattened out in 2005, and two years earlier began exporting marine products.
