Factory workers pile into lorries headed back to workers' dorms in Hlaing Tharyar Township's Shwe Lin Ban Industrial Zone on October 28, 2020. (Frontier)

Leaving Hlaing Tharyar: factory workers flee city for uncertain future

Hundreds of thousands of workers have fled joblessness and state violence in Yangon’s Hlaing Tharyar Township, but without jobs waiting in their home villages a mass exodus to foreign labour markets may be on the horizon.

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