Foreign workers in country

Facing a backlash from employers and observers alike, Thailand has backtracked on a new, heavily criticised law that imposes stricter punishments on irregular workers and their employers, though thousands of Cambodians are still being deported.At the end of last month, Thailand passed a royal decree ...

More than 200 Cambodian migrant workers were arrested in Thailand last week for having inadequate or no working permits, and are waiting to either be deported or face charges in a Thai court, according to the Foreign Affairs Ministry. In a statement released on Wednesday, ...

The Immigration Department has detained 27 Vietnamese migrants suspected of being in Cambodia illegally. The undocumented workers, 20 men and seven women, were arrested on Friday in Phnom Penh’s Toul Kork district. Chief investigator at the Immigration Department, Major General Uk Hiesela, said they were arrested ...

Immigration police on March 21 arrested 15 Vietnamese who had crossed the border illegally as part of an operation to check on foreigners living and working in Cambodia. Major General Ouk Heisela, the director of inspection at the Interior Ministry’s general department of immigration, said his ...

Authorities have extended registration for illegal foreign expatriates who are working in Laos illegally, the Minister of Labour and Social Welfare has said. The extension was made after the last registration period from January to September this year was phased out, which has registered 24,000 ...

ASEAN Dialogue partners are urging Southeast Asian countries to pick up the slack in providing better access to employment for its skilled workers in an effort to achieve the target of free flowing labor in the region. Efforts to enhance skilled labor mobility in ASEAN ...

A World Bank investigation into a tea plantation project in India that it jointly finances with tea giant Tata Global Beverages has found that it has failed to tackle alleged abuses of impoverished workers, the group said on November 9. The International Finance Corporation—a member ...

Foreign workers in breach of a law awaiting passage could face penalties, immigration officials say. The labour ministry is finalising a draft law for submission to the Office of the President that seeks to more tightly regulate foreign workers in the country. The draft incorporates ...

The Thai government has sacked six officials in the town that State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi visited last week. On the day Daw Aung San Suu Kyi visited Mahachai’s seafood market, Myanmar migrant workers accused local authorities of manipulating the arrangement so that only ...

The ASEAN Community, which took effect at the end of last year, has expressed concern about the movement of skilled workers around the region. But its interest in the unskilled labour remains poor, despite the fact that this group provides the real workforce that dominates ...