Myanmar crisis sounds death knell for garment industry, jobs and hope


  • World
  • Thursday, 08 Apr 2021

FILE PHOTO: Workers iron and arrange clothing at a garment factory at Hlaing Taryar industrial zone in Yangon, March 10, 2010. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

(Corrects to 86,000 kyats in paragraph 25)

(Reuters) -Two years after opening his garment factory in Myanmar, Li Dongliang is on the verge of closing down and laying off his 800 remaining workers.

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