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Civil war economy hits Myanmar garment workers / 36JQ2D8
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As civil war pounds Myanmar's economy and drives up prices, garment worker Wai Wai often starts her shift making clothes for international brands on an empty stomach.
The orders she and thousands of others churn out for big names including Adidas, H&M and others bring in billions of dollars in export earnings for Myanmar. It is a rare bright spot in an economy crippled by the military's 2021 coup and subsequent slide into civil war.
But for 12 hours of sewing clothes for export to China and Europe in a bleak industrial suburb of Yangon, Wai Wai earns just over $3 a day, which has to cover rent, food and clothes. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES