BBC News - 29 May 2015 - The migrant crisis in South East Asia will be discussed at a meeting in Bangkok on Friday.
Al Jazeera - 23 June 2015 - Refugees are vulnerable to violence from smugglers who pay off Bangladeshi authorities, insiders say.
New York Times - 21 June 2015 - If money talks, it was the stacks of crisp $100 bills that spoke loudest. An Indonesian smuggler said the Australian authorities had stopped his boat at sea and given him and his crew the cash, more than $30,000, to take his cargo of 65 migrants to Indonesia.
Al Jazeera - 17 June 2015 - Thai authorities have refused to grant refugee status to hundreds of Rohingya who arrived through human traffickers.
IRIN - 12 June 2015 - Unlike its namesake, Jeddah Village boasts no sprawling shopping centres or skyscrapers soaring from the desert sands, but this cluster of homes in Indonesia’s Cireunghas district is intimately tied to Saudi Arabia’s commercial capital: many of the houses were built with money saved by locals who travelled there to work.
ABC Radio National - 15 June 2015 - Singapore runs on migrant labour. Workers from the Philippines, Bangladesh and Indonesia clean and build Singapore and care for Singaporean families. But what happens to them if they lose their job and their work permit is cancelled? Claudia Taranto reports.
CityLab - 9 June 2015 - Most residents of the city-state live in tidy, subsidized highrises. Unless, of course, you happen to be one of the foreign workers who helped build them.
Wall Street Journal - 5 June 2015 - Indonesia is making a wider effort to provide financial literacy courses for the thousands of migrant workers heading abroad. The Wall Street Journal visited a training center for domestic workers to learn more.
Al Jazeera - 29 May 2015 - Seventeen nations attend summit in Bangkok on Southeast Asia crisis but talks not being attended at minister level.
Channel News Asia - 29 May 2015 - South Korea relies on thousands of migrant workers from Southeast Asia to power its agricultural industry. But cases of assault and abuse by employers continue to occur and are rarely punished.
ILO - 29 May 2015 - The guide explains key concepts relevant to international labour migration statistics and makes concrete recommendations on how Pacific Island countries can move towards a harmonized system for collection and analysis of timely, accurate and relevant migration statistics.
BBC News - 26 May 2015 - Malaysia has begun exhuming bodies suspected to be migrants buried in 139 grave sites close to the Thai border.
ABS CBN - 26 May 2015 - Suay Ing was nine when she was first employed as a domestic worker, cleaning for a family and sleeping in their laundry room in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai for $10 a month.
The Establishment Post - 26 May 2015 - It is complicated. Which is probably why Asean’s plan to create a single market and production base by this year does not include migrant workers in Asean. The Asean Economic Community (AEC) aims to have a free flow of goods, services, investment, capital, and skilled labour. So far only eight professions are covered, and they include engineers, architects, doctors, nurses, lawyers and accountants.
The Phnom Penh Post - 25 May 2015 - A major trade union group has condemned Cambodia’s plans to finalise an agreement with Qatar to send workers there as the Gulf state prepares for the 2022 World Cup.
