Eleven, Myanmar, 30 August 2021 - Myanmar migrant workers in Mae Sot, Thailand, are to contact the labour attaché of the Myanmar embassy if they are willing to return to their motherland.
Free Malaysia Today, Malaysia, 30 August 2021 - The High Court here has ruled that the shareholders of three companies which were given contracts to develop systems to vet entries of foreigners into Malaysia underwent economic duress when they were forced to enter into several agreements with a man said to be a proxy of a political leader in the pre-2018 Barisan Nasional administration.
The Phnom Penh Post, Cambodia, 30 August 2021 - The Cambodian embassy in Malaysia intervened to help repatriate nine migrant workers to Cambodia on August 29-30, while the Consulate General in China’s Chongqing municipality also cooperated with the local authorities to rescue and repatriate 12 women.
Khmer Times, Cambodia, 30 August 2021 - At least seven migrant workers and a child were repatriated to Cambodia yesterday evening after intervention by the Cambodian embassy in Malaysia, according to the Foreign Affairs Ministry.
This Day, Nigeria, 29 August 2021 - The Naira4Dollar policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) may have begun to yield dividends as remittances from Nigerians in the Diaspora now stand at an average of $34 billion annually, THISDAY has learnt.
The Financial Express, Malaysia, 29 August 2021 - Reports that many Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia are going hungry as they have lost jobs due to the pandemic are very disconcerting. As it is a serious humanitarian crisis affecting the country's foreign-currency earners in a foreign land, it demands immediate attention from the authorities concerned. According to reports, both documented and undocumented Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia are in dire straits because the country is under lockdown amid the third of wave of the pandemic. Since their employers in the private sector including construction companies, super shops, wholesale markets and small farms have temporarily shuttered their business activities due to the lockdown, these workers have in most cases been terminated from work. A small segment of them which is being paid is getting only a part of their actual pays.
The Korea Times, South Korea, 29 August 2021 - The government is struggling to cope with a recent surge in COVID-19 cases among migrant workers, who are vulnerable to infection clusters due to their often dense living environments and poor working conditions.
Channel News Asia, Singapore, 29 August 2021 - Singapore will enshrine into law the current workplace anti-discrimination guidelines, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in his National Day Rally speech on Sunday (Aug 29).
The Financial Express, Bangladesh, 29 August 2021 - Over the last two decades tens of thousands of Bangladeshis have left their homes every month seeking greener pastures abroad where they can get jobs with higher income and greater savings. They also look forward to such prospect so that they can remit some of their earnings to their family members back home. They want to be part of the Bangladeshi expatriate labour force of more than seven million that are scattered all over the world, particularly in different countries in the Middle East, North Africa and SouthEast Asia. They are encouraged to undertake their journeys as many of their relatives have become economic migrants in these countries and also in Europe and North America.
The Straits Times, Singapore, 29 August 2021 - Ms Poe Ei San, 25, a Myanmar migrant, could not find work as a nurse in Singapore, so she cleaned homes instead.
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