An estimated 135,000 Cambodian migrant workers have been deported from or fled Thailand since early this month after the Thailand's new military government rounded up illegal migrant laborers, a senior official said Sunday.
Taiwan's railway authority on Thursday conducted its first anti-riot exercise in Banqiao station, a move to prepare emergency services for violent attacks on public transportation.
Denmark's nascent economic recovery is on the verge of being cut short due to a rapid decline in unemployment levels for skilled industrial laborers, analysts here worry.
More than 3500 Chinese workers evacuated from Vietnam arrived in Haikou, capital of Hainan Province on Tuesday after around 20 hours aboard four ships.
Hundreds of Cambodian garment workers, trade union representatives and opposition party activists celebrated the 128th International Labor Day here Thursday morning amid tight security, defying a government ban on public gathering and marching.
A massive worker strike over social benefits in south China's Guangdong Province has exposed loopholes in the country's social security scheme and the growing pressure on manufacturers to keep up with rising labor costs.
Representatives of 18 opposition-aligned trade unions and associations on Wednesday called a weeklong strike scheduled for April 17-22.
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.
At least 7 workers were killed Tuesday of inhaling toxic gas while cleaning a septic tank in Tamil Nadu, Souther State of India, according to local newspaper.
The strike at an IBM plant in Shenzhen,in south China's Guangdong Province, subsided on Tuesday, its ninth day, as some employees accepted a new compensation scheme.
Australia's New South Wales (NSW) Government is offering tax breaks for businesses that hire workers recently made redundant from companies' mass sackings, local media reported on Tuesday.
At least 104 workers at two Cambodian factories fainted on Thursday morning due to exposures to chemical substances, the country's union and factory officials said.
"Wanted: lots of male and female workers," reads a banner hanging outside the Zhejiang Hiye Electronics factory in Shaoxing of east China's Zhejiang Province.
Around 40 families showed up at an unusual auction in east China's Shandong Province, to bid for the services of eight nannies.
China's coastal cities are facing the pressure of a severe labor shortage as the country's western interior catches up as a magnet for skilled workers.
The Afghan Taliban kidnapped nearly 50 local employees of a mine clearance agency in the country's western province of Herat on Tuesday morning, sources said.
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