Passion over profit: one man's struggle to keep Myanmar's paper art alive

YANGON, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- In Yangon's Dagon Seikkan township, a small workshop named La Min Eain is alive with quiet concentration as three artisans carefully paint animal figures made entirely from paper, working steadily to meet incoming orders.

The workshop, which employs some 20 workers, was founded 15 years ago by Nyi Nyi Aung, now 52, who began creating handmade paper animal figurines when his son was jus