A hair merchant assesses his day’s haul at Yangon’s Insein market in 2015. (Frontier)

Myanmar’s hair trade weathers the post-coup storm

The human hair business has managed to survive, and even thrive, in southern Mandalay Region despite the economic chaos brought by the 2021 coup and ensuing conflict.

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