MILITARY TAKEOVER OF MYANMAR HAS HINDERED PAINT AND COATING AND INDUSTRY AND MARKET
August 30th, 2022
The military coup d'état on February 1st, 2021, which overthrew an elected government in Myanmar has harmed the country’s paint and coating industry and market, impeding the construction sector, which had been expanding its work before the current ruling military junta seized power.
The coup has provoked major unrest. A UN special rapporteur on Myanmar reported in June: “Junta forces have killed more than 2,000 civilians, arrested more than 14,000, displaced more than 700,000, driving the number of internally displaced persons well over one million, and ...
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