Workers may fly to South Korea and Japan

The international flight ban has been lifted for citizens traveling to South Korea and Japan for work. U Peter Nyan Maung, vice president of the Myanmar Overseas Employment Agencies Federation, told The Myanmar Times that the decision was based on th

Returning migrants threaten efforts to seal borders

The government has attempted to close border checkpoints after confirming its first cases of COVID-19. However, border security has had to reverse and delay its attempts to keep people from crossing due to hundreds of thousands of migrant workers see

Myanmar’s Japan embassy hacked

Two email accounts of Myanmar’s embassy in Japan were hacked, resulting in scam emails sent to Japanese companies. The Embassy of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar announced the hack on Facebook. Labourmyanmarembasssy@gmail.com and labour.se

Myanmar legalizes foreign remittances

Independent cash remittance services can now receive official licenses to transfer money between Myanmar and other countries. The Central Bank of Myanmar will issue the licenses mainly to overseas employment agencies. Myanmar people have been able to