China will have a migrant population of 310 million by 2030, almost the same size as the population of the United States, according to statistics cited by Health News on Friday.
How to address the migrant crisis was at the center of Italian debate on Monday, a day after hundreds of people were feared to have drowned over the weekend while attempting the Mediterranean Sea crossing.
The Thai government was on Monday urged to speed up the official process for the legalization of migrant workers hired by the fishing industry.
Train tickets for Valentine's Day – Feb 14 – are predicted to be the hardest-to-get based on statistics, according to Beijing-based Internet technology company Qihu 360.
As a migrant worker, Li Weichao spent much of his youth shifting from one temp job to another, living thousands of miles away from his family to perform backbreaking labor for minimal pay.
The Thai authorities have arrested 13 Cambodian migrant workers who were accused of using fraudulent work documents as at least 232,000 Cambodian laborers have been deported from or fled Thailand in fears of a roundup on illegal migrant workers, Cambodian officials said Sunday.
The number of Cambodian migrant workers, who have been deported from or fled Thailand over fears of a junta-led clampdown on illegal foreign workers, rose to 220, 000 on Wednesday.
At least six Cambodian migrant workers were killed and 13 others injured after a truck carrying them crashed into a tree in the Chachoengsao province of Thailand on Saturday night, Cambodian Foreign Ministry's spokesman Koy Kuong confirmed Sunday.
Police in south China's Guangdong Province have detained four suspects and launched a pursuit for three others who were allegedly involved in attacking a group of unpaid migrant workers, killing one of them, earlier this month.
The Chinese government on Monday launched a wages overhaul to ensure that millions of migrant workers from the country's rural regions get properly paid before they return home for a major traditional Chinese holiday.
China's spectacular economic growth has been accompanied by social contradictions as a result of the development of industrialization and urbanization, said Chinese economists in Hong Kong on June 3.
China's Beijing and Shanghai cities and Guangdong Province on Sunday published plans to gradually allow migrant workers' children to enter senior high schools and sit college entrance exams locally.