Thidar Win cuts Nwe Yee Win's hair she purchased for $18 in Yangon, Myanmar August 22, 2018. Picture taken August 22, 2018. REUTERS/Ann Wang
YANGON (Reuters) - Hair helps to pay the rent for Za Za Lin, whose eyes filled with tears as her long black mane was combed, cut, and untangled by practised hands at a roadside market stall in Myanmar's commercial hub of Yangon.
"It only hurts a little," said the 15-year-old, as hair buyer Zin Mar handed over the equivalent of $13 for the 20 inches (51 cm) of hair she sheared off, roughly the minimum weekly wage in Myanmar.
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