Migrant workers

Money transfers back into Cambodia from nationals working abroad improved in 2021 after a Covid-19 induced slump in the previous year, with around 1.3...

A rights group has asked US authorities to investigate the Malaysian operations of multinational US firm Goodyear...

Departure gate at Singapore's Changi airport Apart from having the lowest fertility rate in the world, Singapore now...

The European Commission on January 8 removed Thailand from the group of "warned countries,” known as “yellow card,” for its action and progress in...

The Thai government is eager to have around two million illegal migrant workers, most of them from Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, registered by...

The current migrant worker crisis in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) highlights the ineffectiveness of the bloc in regulating core issues of...

The Philippines on June 6 blocked the deployment of new overseas workers to Qatar as the gas-rich Gulf state started grappling with a diplomatic...

Cambodia and Saudi Arabia signed a memorandum of understanding on February 11 to create a framework for sending labourers and household helpers to Saudi...

The decision of the Indonesian government to stop allowing maids and other low-skilled labourers to take on jobs in the Middle East and North...

Thailand-based Kasikorn Bank is planning to launch its branches in Myanmar, according to a statement by the bank. Nuttaphong Visitkichakarn, an official from the...

Thailand could face a shortage of about 5 million labourers in the next 12 years if migrant workers from Myanmar - the vast majority...

Around 1.4 million Bangladeshi citizens have registered for work permits in Malaysia, the government in Putrajaya said. However, only 500,000 of them were qualified...