
Times are hard for many residents of industrial areas in Yangon, especially for those without permanent jobs who have to rely on loan sharks to make ends meet.
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi vowed in Singapore to work for "peace and national reconciliation" amid mounting international condemnation of a bloody army crackdown in Rakhine State.
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