Tag: Migrant workers
Bitter harvest: Malaysian palm oil farmers face labor crunch
Palm oil is a controversial commodity, blamed by environmentalists for fueling the destruction of rainforest in Malaysia and Indonesia
Philippine Catholic bishop appeals for help for Filipinos in Sri Lanka
“For their safety and their protection we support the repatriation of our Filipino nationals in Sri Lanka," said Bishop Ruperto Santos
Not so personal ‘personal’
A personal parish is created by the bishop to “better serve Catholics of a particular rite, language, nationality, ethnicity"
Bankrupt Sri Lanka allows younger women to work abroad
Remittances from Sri Lankans working abroad have long been a key source of foreign exchange for the country
Deaths of Asian migrant workers in Gulf states mostly ‘unexplained, unnecessary,’...
Government data on migrant worker deaths are fragmented, incomplete and inconsistent, says a report released by non-government groups
Hong Kong judge rules in favor of abused Filipino domestic worker
The judge said it is "manifestly irrational and unsound" for the police to dismiss the possibility of forced labor
Prominent Catholic advocate of migrants’ rights in Singapore dies
Bridget Tan was founder of Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics or HOME
‘Out of sight, out of mind’ attitude hampers COVID recovery for...
“The COVID-19 pandemic hit the fishing and seafood processing industries in Southeast Asia hard and migrant workers the hardest”
Virus wave deepens grim conditions for domestic workers in Hong Kong
Women from the Philippines and Indonesia who work as domestic helpers have suffered more under Hong Kong's pandemic restrictions
China detains at least 400 Myanmar migrants for more than a...
About 300 of the migrants were held at a prison in the southern coastal city of Dongguan
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