Most Yangon-based businesses run by people from Rakhine State are tailors or goldsmiths, said Ma Than Than Win, who moved from Rakhine to Yangon. Many women originally from Rakhine who live in suburban Yangon have opened shops in their living rooms – some combining tailoring with selling traditional Rakhine foods, she added.
Rakhine men who move to Yangon mostly work as goldsmiths, according to U Shay Gyi, who has his own shop. “I opened a gold shop and my wife sells Rakhine snacks in the street bazaar,” he said. “Business is alright for me. We both have jobs, so the situation is not so hard.” At the gold shops, the focus is more on the art of creating and learning a craft than selling, he said.
But U Shay Gyi believes this way of life is endangered. “Many young people who move to Yangon from Rakhine want to sell handsets and phone accessories given the current situation,” he said, referring to Myanmar’s recent telecommunications boom. “Now the youth are opening phone accessories shops.” (Courtesy of MMTimes)
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