Myanmar: Myanmar Bamboo Market Eyes Growth Potential

Dec 4, 2017 | Kyaw Ye Lynn, Frontier
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The shortage of a special variety of bamboo is creating challenges for the handmade umbrella industry established a century ago in the Ayeyarwady Region capital, Pathein, by loyal subjects of Myanmar’s last monarch, King Thibaw. The umbrella workshops concentrated on Pathein’s Tawya Kaung Road are an unlikely legacy of the decision by the British to banish Thibaw to India after they seized the royal palace in Mandalay in November 1885 at the end of the Third Anglo-Burmese War.