India: corruption. Ukraine. Web links to Kyiv Post material are allowed provided that they contain a URL hyperlink to the www.kyivpost.com material and a maximum 500-character extract of the story. Otherwise, all materials contained on this site are protected by copyright law and may not be reproduced without the prior written permission of Public Media at news@kyivpost.com All information of the Interfax-Ukraine news agency placed on this web site is designed for internal use only. Its reproduction or distribution in any form is prohibited without a written permission of Interfax-Ukraine. Cambodia. As mass garment strikes enter a second week, fast-approaching buyer deadlines have manufacturers fretting about transport costs and mounting bills.
At least two of Cambodia’s hundreds of garment manufacturers, which ceased operations last week after workers walked off the job demanding a 100 per cent wage increase, will consider paying more than three times their usual transport costs to meet due dates and avoid late penalties. Nam-Shik Kang, the managing director of Injae Garment Co in Phnom Penh, said manufacturers are expecting to have to fork out thousands of extra dollars to send their shipments by air freight instead of by ship to meet the looming deadlines and avoid penalties.
This scenario, however, is still contingent on workers returning to finish off orders for shipment, an unlikely prospect in the short term. “All manufacturers are facing the same issues. We are looking at spending the extra money on air freight in the coming weeks to meet the demands of the buyers,” he said. Ethnic traditions vanishing as Myanmar opens up. By Denis D. Gray / AP, KAMPALET, Myanmar High in the hills of Myanmar’s Chin state, Shwe Mana plays a gentle song on a bamboo flute using only her nostrils — one of the last of her tribe to preserve this ancient skill. A dark, intricate web of tattoos covers her face, harking back to a time, it is said, when women disfigured themselves to dampen the lust of lowland marauders. Her university-educated daughter, resting a hand gently on the 53-year-old’s shoulder, makes it clear she will not be getting similar tattoos in what she calls, “this Internet age.”
Her illiterate mother, like many from the Chin ethnic group, explains that the outside world has imparted a new sense of what is beautiful. “My daughter thought it would be too painful and she would not look pretty,” said Mana, whose house hugs a 1,370m ridgeline in the pleasant town of Kampalet. Their story is becoming a common one in a country not long ago described as a place where time stood still.
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