Coronavirus boom for Malaysia’s rubber glove industry loses shine amid worker rights abuses

Even as the coronavirus pandemic propels profits in Malaysia’s burgeoning rubber glove industry to new heights, widespread accusations of forced labour amid increasing competition from China and Thailand have left it facing an ultimatum: change or be changed.Malaysia produces about 65 per cent of the world’s supply of rubber gloves and the coronavirus-induced boom has had a transformative effect on the nation’s rubber industry – the world’s fifth or sixth largest – as a whole. Its share of GDP…

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