Xinhuanet, China, 5 March 2020 - Migrant workers get on a special train to return to work at a railway station in Mianxian County, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, March 5, 2020. Local authorities have organized special trains free of charge to facilitate the travel for the migrant workers to go out for work in the country's eastern coastal cities. More than 1,400 migrant workers here started their journey on Thursday.
Xinhuanet, China, 5 March 2020 - Central China's Henan Province has launched special high-speed train services to help more than 12,000 migrant workers return to work, according to China Railway Zhengzhou Group Co., Ltd.
Daily Express, Malaysia, 4 March 2020 - The Government needs to rethink its healthcare policies towards undocumented migrant workers as the current policy drives them underground and made contact tracing and quarantine difficult for management of outbreaks, said epidemiologist Dr Chan Chee Khoon.
Market Place, China, 4 March 2020 - Migrant workers make up about one-third of China’s vast workforce, and COVID-19 has put them in an especially tough position. These are Chinese nationals — lower middle class to working poor — who live tenuously in the cities, but whose official home base may be far away.
New Bloom, Taiwan, 3 March 2020 - There is increasing public discussion of what measures should be taken regarding migrant workers in Taiwan as a result of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.
Focus Taiwan, Taiwan, 1 March 2020 - Indonesian state-owned Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) said Sunday that it has distributed thousands of surgical face masks for Indonesian migrant workers in Taiwan in an effort to help prevent the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
Focus Taiwan, Taiwan, 28 February 2020 - Taiwan's government is planning a campaign to get information on health and hygiene to migrant workers after an Indonesian caregiver was recently confirmed to be infected with the novel coronavirus.
South China Morning Post, Philippines, 25 February 2020 - Filipino migrant workers stranded in the country due to travel bans imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus have now been allowed to return to Hong Kong and Macau, a Philippine official said on Tuesday.
Global Voices, Thailand, 25 February 2020 - Off the shores of Thailand, a seafood industry flourishes and feeds the multi-billion-dollar global appetite for tuna, prawns, and squid. But in the ground zero of the global supply chain for seafood, exploitation and debt-bondage are standard workplace practices.
Focus Taiwan, Taiwan, 25 February 2020 - Taiwan is expanding the number of migrant workers local farm operators can hire on a trial basis this year, allowing them to work in different areas of the agriculture sector, the Council of Agriculture (COA) said Tuesday.
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