The Hindu, India, 17 May 2020 - Around 800 migrant workers, who have travelled to Madurai from other parts of the country during the lockdown, are quarantined at 13 institutions across the district.
The News Minute, India, 17 May 2020 - Three months ago, 21-year-old Anuji Baskey was flipping burgers and making sandwiches as a ‘Master’ at a restaurant in Thrissur, Kerala. With the little money he made, he was able to survive and send some money back home to his parents in Jharkhand, who he says are poor farm workers. “We all have the same story,” he says with a quivering voice, “we left home to make money and support our families. Now we are at their mercy to return home, they have had to send us money,” he says, sitting on a pavement in Moore Market, just behind Chennai Central railway station.
South China Morning Post, India, 17 May 2020 - All governments like to make pious noises about the poor, democratically elected ones even more so. Even if they are run by elites with little genuine interest in the well-being of the unwashed, they at least put up a show of caring. It’s not just virtue-signalling, it’s survival. Which is what makes India’s handling of the coronavirus lockdown so baffling. The political leadership of the world’s biggest democracy these days doesn’t even pretend that it cares about the poor working class.
The Straits Times, Singapore, 17 May 2020 - I realised recently that I've never had a real conversation with a migrant worker, not one where we talk to each other as equals.
The Kathmandu Post, Nepal, 17 May 2020 - The government has announced a plan to provide initial capital to returnee migrant workers for starting their own ventures in the country.
Today, Singapore, 17 May 2020 - Mr Jayasankar Vinothkumar is an electrician by trade but these days, he has been spending his time watching YouTube and learning how to fix serial light sets — a regular fixture at Indian weddings.
BBC, UAE, 16 May 2020 - Pradeep Kumar and his wife Premlatha, who is 32 weeks pregnant, spent two nights last week sleeping in the basement car park.
The Jakarta Post, Indonesia, 16 May 2020 - Hundreds of Indonesian migrant workers recently returning to the country gathered in a crowd outside the Kemayoran Athletes Village makeshift hospital for COVID-19 on Thursday, forced to spend hours waiting for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing due to technical difficulties.
Free Malaysia Today, Thailand and Malaysia, 15 May 2020 - Thailand and Malaysia moved quickly to head off Covid-19, sealing their borders, shutting down people movement and encouraging social distancing.
Huffington Post, India, 15 May 2020 - Friday marks a week since the Aurangabad tragedy on 8 May, when 16 migrant workers were killed when a goods train ran over them. A group of 21 people — all trying to walk home to Madhya Pradesh — had slept on or near the tracks because they were exhausted from their journey.
The Print, Malaysia, 15 May 2020 - The sequence of events is familiar. As the coronavirus spreads across an economy, livelihoods are lost and futures are imperiled. Looking for someone to blame, populists and opportunistic politicians turn to migrants and refugees. Soon, the local social media fills with xenophobia and hate, along with demands that the foreigners “go back to where they came from.”
South China Morning Post, Singapore, 15 May 2020 - Construction workers in Singapore will not be allowed to mingle with others on work sites and on their days off when they begin returning to work next month after the city state’s partial “circuit breaker” lockdown ends, authorities said on Friday.
CNN, Singapore, 15 May 2020 - At the start of April, Singapore had about 1,000 cases of the novel coronavirus.
New Straits Times, Malaysia, 14 May 2020 - Despite the government's campaign on hiring restriction of the unskilled migrant workers in preference of national workers, the population of migrant workers in Malaysia has increased over the past few years.
The Star, India, 14 May 2020 - India will provide free food grains to millions of migrant workers hardest hit by a weeks-long lockdown as well as offer employment under a rural jobs programme, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Thursday.
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