In a demonstration of her popular appeal, Myanmar de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi received a rapturous welcome on Thursday as she presided over a town hall-type meeting with some of the huge population of migrant workers from her homeland who eke out a living in Thailand.
Everyone loves a bargain but the true cost of that latest wardrobe addition is pitiful wages for Bangladesh's legion of factory workers, writes Simon Parry.
Three workers were killed and five others sustained serious injuries after a bridge under construction collapsed in West Nusa Tenggara province of central Indonesia on Tuesday, an official of the local disaster management agency said.
Until very recently, the children of migrant workers had no right to sit the "gaokao," China'a annual college entrance exam, in their adopted cities, even if they had studied there for most of their academic life.
Australian authorities have sent a strong message to companies for underpaying interns.
When Fumiko Kasai returned to work a decade ago she found Japan's job market was very different to the one she had left in the 1980s to raise her four children.
Focus on Asean's skilled migrants excludes the most vulnerable group.The Asean Community, which took effect at the end of last year, has expressed concern about the movement of skilled workers around the region.
A collapse at an illegal mine killed at least 13 people in Myanmar’s northern Kachin State, a resident involved in rescue efforts said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of deadly accidents to hit the jade-mining area.
Premier Li Keqiang urged State-owned enterprises to remove excess production capacity and increase quality during a visit to Hubei province on Monday.
Half of the top 100 businesses in the country have laid off workers recently, according to conglomerate tracker Chaebul.com on Sunday.
Squeezed by high costs and unpredictable demand, some factories in the southern manufacturing heartland are turning to a new strategy to survive: hiring workers by the day.
Thousands can choose to sit for national college exam in Guangdong, instead of returning home
A Qatari envoy yesterday told Cambodian Labour Minister Ith Sam Heng that the Gulf state was interested in receiving as many as 100,000 Cambodian workers. This interest has rekindled concerns for would-be migrants’ well-being among labour rights advocates, despite the envoy’s assurances they would be well looked after.
Indonesia says it will stop sending new live-in maids abroad from as early as next year. Its authorities want domestic workers to live separately from their employers in dormitories, work regular hours, and get public holidays and days off.
The Republic of Korea (RoK) will receive some 3,500 Vietnamese workers in 2016 after three years of limiting the reception of Vietnamese labors due to high rates of illegal workers.
"Actually working overtime is a very casual thing," he said. "Because I've invested the whole of my being into this company."
The Malaysian government said yesterday that it will partially lift a ban on the hiring of low-skilled foreign workers, just two months after halting their intake.
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