Minimum wage

The government of Laos has agreed in principle to a minimum wage increase amid rising cost of living and rampant inflation in the country,...

The significant raise of Malaysia’s minimum wage by May 1 predictably does not find favour among businesses in the private sector, but some economists...

The Thai government is close to approving a potentially sharp rise in the daily minimum wage from a rate between 313 baht ($9.37) and...

Policymakers in Laos are studying a proposal to rise the country’s minimum wage as inflation and an increasing cost of living bites particularly low-earners,...

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...