Children fuel Myanmar’s economic boom

HMAWBI, Myanmar: Fourteen-year-old San Min Hteik had worked at the steel factory for less than a week when his hand got caught in a machine, a casualty of the economic boom driving more children into Myanmar’s factories.

Two of his fingers were lost after the rod-cutter sliced them down to the bone and weeks later, doctors are still unsure whether they will be able to save the others.