Myanmar's 'long-necked' women return home as entrepreneurs

Panpet, Myanmar

WEARING a stack of bronze neck coils - a sign of beauty for her Kayan tribe - Mu Par dreams of a time when all "long-necked" women can return to Myanmar from Thailand where they are a tourist attraction.

For years, Kayan women and girls have been driven across the border by poverty and conflict to earn money posing in holidaymakers' pictures in purpose-built Thai villages decried by rights campaigners as "human zoos".