4 December 2013 - Colombo Page. Sri Lanka today called for efforts to introduce standard terms for employment of migrant domestic workers and closed cooperation between the labor sending and receiving countries to ensure their insurance and protection.
2 December 2013 - Karen News. Recent reforms in Burma have not stopped thousands of migrant workers moving to Thailand in search of work. International workers organisations estimate that more than 2 million Burmese migrants have come to Thailand in search of better paid work
02 December 2013 - TWC2. Singaporean NGO, Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2), examines the current debate around migrant workers injuries and medical leave in Singapore.
02 December 2013 - IRIN News. IRIN takes a look at some of the most common myths surrounding migration and presents some of the evidence that challenges them.
27 November 2013 - Antara News. Deputy for worker protection and employment at the manpower and transmigration ministry, Agustin Subiantoro, said Indonesian workers abroad contribute Rp100 trillion to the countrys foreign exchange earning per year.
19 November 2013 - The Establishment Post. Remittances by legal foreign workers in Malaysia doubled from RM10 billion in 2009 to almost RM20 billion last year (US$3.12 billion and US$6.24 billion respectively).
18 November 2013 - The Guardian. Treatment of migrant workers in Qatar is systematic, often amounting to forced labour, Amnesty International report shows.
11 November 2013 - The Daily Beast. The wealthy Asian city-state is experiencing a building boom—but for the migrants constructing its glittering high-rises, life can amount to indentured servitude.
11 November 2013 - PressTV.ir. A top UN official has criticized Qatar over the condition of migrant workers in the Persian Gulf emirate and reports of workers' deaths on construction sites.
11 November 2013 - RT.com. A crackdown on migrants in Saudi Arabia sparked clashes between police and hundreds of foreign workers in a poor area of the capital Riyadh. Two people were killed and dozens were injured in the violence.
7 November 2013 - Radio Free Asia. Lao authorities have launched a pilot program in the capital Vientiane to regulate foreign workers in the country.
5 November 2013 - Al Jazeera. Saudi authorities rounded up more than 4,000 illegal foreign workers at the start of a nationwide crackdown ultimately aimed at creating more jobs for locals, media reported on Tuesday.
5 November 2013 - BBC News. Saudi Arabia is rounding up thousands of illegal migrant workers, after an amnesty introducing new employment rules expired.
3 November 2013 - The Nation Online. Too many labourers in Asean countries without insurance or any kind of protection.
29 October 2013 - The Nation. Prompted by concerns over the ease with which foreigners will be able to travel in and out of the country once the Asean Economic Community (AEC) commences in 2015, the Institute for Forensic Medicine is calling on the government to collect the DNA of all migrant workers entering the country, to be stored in a national database for future identification.
