Channel News Asia, Singapore, 25 December 2020 - It's been a long journey for the 57-year-old over the last year. A journey of physical and mental recovery, after a car crash outside a shopping mall in Singapore last December left the foreign domestic worker injured and her sister Arlyn dead.
Focus Taiwan, Taiwan, 24 December 2020 - Officials from Taiwan and Indonesia will convene in two weeks to resolve disputes regarding to the recruitment costs for Indonesian migrant workers after a meeting on Wednesday left a number of issues pending, according to Deputy Minister of Labor Affairs Lin San-quei.
Khmer Times, Cambodia, 24 December 2020 - Cambodian Ambassador to South Korea has confirmed about seven Cambodian migrant workers working in South Korea have died in South Korea.
Relief Web, Laos, 23 December 2020 - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare (MoLSW) today (18 December) marked the closing of the project – Enhancing COVID-19 Pandemic Preparedness to Migrants and Mobility Affected Communities in Lao People’s Democratic Republic.
Taiwan News, Taiwan, 23 December 2020 - Taiwan's Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on Wednesday (Dec. 23) announced that six new cases of Wuhan coronavirus have been imported from the Philippines and Indonesia, including an Indonesian woman who tested positive after already moving into her employer's home.
The Malaysian Reserve, Malaysia, 23 December 2020 - FGV Holdings Bhd had assisted 1,084 of its migrant workers to return to their home countries between March and December 2020 despite some challenges.
Reuters, South Korea, 22 December 2020 - The deaths of hundreds of mainly undocumented Thai migrant workers in South Korea have been uncovered by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, prompting the United Nations to call for inquiry into the fate of migrants known as “little ghosts”.
Radio Free Asia, Thailand, 22 December 2020 - Thailand is considering imposing a strict lockdown, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha announced Tuesday, after hundreds of new coronavirus cases were confirmed among a migrant-worker cluster in one province for a third straight day, with alarming secondary transmissions detected elsewhere.
Bangkok Post, Thailand, 22 December 2020 - The government on Tuesday reported 427 new cases of the novel coronavirus, including 397 migrant workers, raising the accumulated total since the start of the pandemic to 5,716.
Malay Mail, Malaysia, 22 December 2020 - FGV Holdings Bhd had assisted 1,084 of its migrant workers to return to their home countries from March to December 2020, despite challenges in global travel restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic.