South Korea's unification ministry plans to restrict the entry of workers into the Kaesong industrial complex, an inter-Korean factory park in the namesake city of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), local media reported Thursday.
Job availability in Japan increased to its highest level in nearly 24 years in November as improving profits spurred companies to take on more staff, Japan's health ministry said Friday.
The Lao government will start registering and issuing temporary work permits for foreigners across the country from Wednesday to March 16, 2016 with the expectation of having at least 30,000 foreigners enter the registration process.
Cambodia and Malaysia signed on Thursday two Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) on the recruitment of Cambodian workers and maids to Malaysia, said a press statement released by Cambodia's Labor Ministry.
Hopes faded on Monday that any of 100 people still missing would be found alive two days after a landslide near a jade mine in northern Myanmar smashed into a makeshift settlement, burying mine workers as they slept.
The China-Australia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) took a giant leap to garnering bipartisan support in Australia's parliament on Tuesday, with the Labor party backing down from changes to the original legislation.
Myanmar government is launching a low-cost housing project for workers in industrial zones to help share the cost burden that private factories must bear following the enactment of a national minimum wage on Sept. 1, reports said on Tuesday.
The introduction of a new minimum wage on workers in Myanmar has initially left about 500 workers sacked, an official report said Monday.
Chevron's Gorgon Project of the Western Australia northwest coast is expected to be delayed further after workers overwhelmingly supported taking industrial actions over work roster concerns.
South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) have agreed to a wage hike issue for the DPRK workers employed by South Korean companies running factories in the Kaesong Industrial Complex, Yonhap News Agency reported Tuesday citing industry sources.
Australian port workers sacked last week via Internet will head back to work on Friday after winning a temporary reprieve, successfully arguing Hutchison Ports Australia failed in its workplace responsibilities.
Six workers have been rescued from a flooded colliery in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province by Monday morning, local authorities said.
An armed squad attacked workers of the Mexican national oil company, PEMEX, in the state of Tabasco Thursday, leaving three dead and three more injured.
Some major global brands have voiced support for the Myanmar government's proposed minimum daily wage proposal, saying that a guaranteed pay rate would help promote investment in the country's garment industry and raise the living standard of its workers, an official report said Thursday.
South Korea and the Democratic People 's Republic of Korea (DPRK) agreed Thursday to hold talks about the operation of the cooperative Kaesong industrial zone next week, Seoul's unification ministry said.
The death toll from a tanker explosion in the southeastern Nigerian city of Onitsha in Anambra has risen to 85 as of Monday night, local authorities said on Tuesday.
Migrant workers in Australia are being subjected to slave-like conditions, sexual propositions and black market labor gangs on farms and factories supplying the country's biggest food businesses.
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