Tag: Migrant Rights
Number of Rohingya fleeing Myanmar tops 100,000
A growing sense of desperation is fueling a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims from western Myanmar, with the number who have fled by boat since communal violence broke out two years ago now topping 100,000, a leading expert said Saturday.
Oct 25, 10:31 AM EDT | By ROBIN McDOWELL |...
Cheated seafarers speak out: ‘It’s simply human trafficking’
Ko Aung Naing’s dream was to be a seaman on a shipping vessel. But when his parents paid an employment agency K3.3 million to get him a job on a foreign cargo ship, he didn’t expect to end up working near a foreign port for a meagre wage as...
Feature: Asian migrant workers may find it hard to get hired in Thailand despite AEC, economist says
Migrant workers from Southeast Asian countries will not find it easy to get employed in Thailand despite the implementation next year of the ASEAN Economic Community, according to a noted Thai economist.
Oct 27,2014 By Surasak Tumcharoen
BANGKOK, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- Migrant workers from Southeast Asian countries will not find...
Business case of better management of migrant workers in Malaysia
The labour conditions of migrant workers in Malaysia have been under the international spotlight in recent months. First was a riot in an IT factory involving Nepalese workers. A month later, a report on the working conditions of labour in the electronics sector found conditions that were headlined “modern...
Scholars urge more migrant protections
The situation has improved slightly since June, following moves by the National Council for Peace and Order to regulate migrant workers, said Narong Petprasert, an economist at Chulalongkorn University.
Published: 10/11/2014 at 06:00 AM
Newspaper section: News
The government must do more to tackle abuses against migrant workers, academics say.
The situation has...
Thailand to Push Back More Than 200 Boat People to Burma: Police
More than 200 boat people held in southern Thailand will be pushed back out to sea, police said on Monday, despite calls by rights group to stop a policy that puts would-be asylum seekers at risk.
By AMY SAWITTA LEFEVRE / REUTERS| Tuesday, November 11, 2014 |
BANGKOK — More than...
Burma’s state security forces profit from trafficking Rohingya Muslims
Authorities are earning $7,000 per boatload in exchange for passage out to sea
Kate Hodal in Phnom Penh
The Guardian, Friday 7 November 2014 16.10 GMT
Burma’s state security forces are profiting directly from the trafficking of stateless Rohingya Muslims, earning up to $7,000 per boatload in exchange for passage to sea,...
Act now on slavery shame
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha met Myanmar President Thein Sein at the 25th Asean Summit in Nay Pyi Taw this week. Unfortunately, global attention was not so much on the economic dreams the pair wanted to share with the world, but on their roles in the modern day slave trade.
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Probe into disappearance of over 100 immigrant detainees in Thailand
An investigation is under way into the disappearance of more than a hundred illegal immigrant women and children from a government shelter in Songkhla.
The Nation/Asia News NetworkFriday, Nov 14, 2014
An investigation is under way into the disappearance of more than a hundred illegal immigrant women and children from a...
Thousands of Rohingyas go missing after leaving Myanmar
An advocacy group for Rohingyas says thousands of the members of the Muslim community who left Myanmar last month amid growing fears of persecution and targeted attacks have yet to reach their destinations, which is mainly Malaysia.
Sat Nov 15, 2014 1:19PM GMT
An advocacy group for Rohingyas says thousands of...
