Minimum wage

As the coronavirus pandemic bites and export numbers drop, garment manufacturing companies in Cambodia have asked the...

Cambodia raised the monthly minimum wage for garment workers by $12 on October 5 to $182, fulfilling an election promise by premier Hun Sen. A...

The Malaysian government will raise and standardise the minimum wage for the private sector across the country as of January 1, 2019, fulfilling one...

All businesses and factories in Laos are required to increase the minimum wage from 900,000 kip (some $108) to 1.1 million kip ($133) a...

Cambodia will introduce a national minimum salary for all workers and not just for textile workers, teachers and doctors as it was the case...

More than one tenth of the Thai population is still living below the poverty line even though the country's GDP would be high enough...

Inequality in Indonesia has reached historical high, a World Bank report released in Jakarta on December 8 revealed. The country's Gini coefficient, which measures...

Ahead of its anxiously awaited general elections slated for November 8, Myanmar is taking big steps forward in closing up to the modern world...

The structural change in the East Asian labour market and rising wages in China – which used to be the cheap manufacturing hub of...

Thailand's 300-baht-per-day ($9) national daily minimum wage will be scrapped next year to be replaced by the old system where wages vary by each...

A new study shows that three Asian countries, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Cambodia, and the small East African nation of Djibouti, have the world’s lowest...

An expansion of industrial capacity in Laos' garment industry has caused a five per cent increase in export value over the first six months...

Fashion brand Levi Strauss & Co. has slashed orders from Cambodian factories amid the political unrest in the country, after a nationwide strike by...

Cambodia is not ready to join the Asean Economic Community (AEC) at the end of 2015, a senior official has admitted. Given its low...

Labour costs in the Southeast Asia region are rising further in 2014, in line with the implementation and increment of minimum wage in a...

Major international clothing companies say they are concerned for the safety of Cambodia’s garment workers and want to see peaceful negotiations between unions, factories...

The world’s second-largest clothing retailer H&M has announced what it believes is a roadmap toward paying a “fair living wage” by 2018 to approximately...

Around 7,000 Indonesian workers took to the streets of the capital Jakarta on October 17, demanding that the government raise wages and adding to...