Daily News, Sri Lanka, 31 January 2019 - The Telecommunication, Foreign Employment and Sports Ministry launched a national media campaign on Safe Labour Migration, at the Ministry’s auditorium on Monday.
Malay Mail, Malaysia, 31 January 2019 - The Human Resources Ministry announced today that the government will take WRP Asia Pacific Sdn Bhd to court for withholding the salaries of its workers from Bangladesh and Nepal, which triggered a strike by 2,000 staff earlier this week.
Middle East Eye, Qatar and UAE, 31 January 2019 - Workers complain of having passports confiscated, arbitrary curfews and poor pay, UK-based Business and Human Rights Resource Centre says
The Korea Times, South Korea, 30 January 2019 - At the beginning of each year, a growing number of foreign migrant workers in South Korea are confused and frustrated by the mandatory task of the year-end tax settlement.
BIZ, Sri Lanka, 30 January 2019 - Sri Lanka’s Telecommunication, Foreign Employment and Sports Minister Harin Fernando Monday (28) had told reporters that the country was now in the process of training workers to fulfill 10,000 vacancies in Japan and a number of European countries.
Quartz India, India, 30 January 2019 - It’s 11am on a Tuesday morning in Gurgaon, a bustling city southwest of New Delhi. Hundreds of construction workers are laying steel bars around what looks like a pile of rubble—a project that, in two years, will become a massive residential center.
Menafn, Philippines, 30 January 2019 - The Philippine government has warned minors not to fall victim to illegal recruiters who falsify travel documents and promise employment abroad.
International Labour Organization, Thailand, 30 January 2019 - Thailand has committed itself to ensuring acceptable living and working conditions for fishers on board ships by ratifying the Work in Fishing Convention. It has become the first country in Asia to do so, which signals to other countries in the region to follow this move.
Focus Taiwan News Channel, Taiwan, 30 January 2019 - The Ministry of Labor (MOL) said Wednesday that it will allow dairy farms to hire migrant workers on a trial basis as part of an effort to help solve the labor shortage problem in that sector.
Focus Taiwan News Channel, Taiwan, 29 January 2019 - The National Immigration Agency (NIA) announced Tuesday that it had discovered an illegal migrant worker broker group, resulting in the arrests of the prime suspect, identified by his surname Chu (朱) and his alleged accomplice, surnamed Hsu (徐).
XinHuaNet, China, 17 January 2019 - Construction workers receive physical check at a construction site in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, Jan. 17, 2019. Volunteers from a community in Hefei provided physical checks and gifts for migrant workers who will return to their hometowns to celebrate the Spring Festival with their families. The Spring Festival, or the Chinese Lunar New Year, falls on Feb. 5 this year.
Eleven, Myanmar, 16 January 2019 - More than 230,000 Myanmar migrant workers went abroad last year, seeing a greater increase when compared with the number of domestic jobs, according to the Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population.
NPR, Japan, 15 January 2019 - The wind howls and snow drifts around a house in Koriyama, in northeastern Japan's Fukushima prefecture. The town is inland from Fukushima's coastal areas that were devastated by the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear plant meltdown.
The Nation, Thailand, 15 January 2019 - Fruit shop owners Maruay Srijakkra, 37, and Meena Thepcharoen, 44, were arrested on Monday afternoon, after the Cambodian Embassy’s labour advisers led Thai police and related officials to the Aiyara Market in Tambon Khlong Neung, Khlong Luang district.
Dhaka Tribune, Bangladesh, 13 January 2019 - Bangladesh, like many other developing countries, is dependent on the remittance inflow from our expatriate workers. This helps us not only to meet our balance of trade deficit but also to add to our foreign exchange reserve. In addition, it enables us to find employment abroad for our growing population, and assist in socio-economic development in the rural regions in our country.
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