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    ASEAN Labour Issues Lead Story Migrants Issues News

    For many ASEAN migrants, ‘decent work’ still a distant dream

    Thailand, ASEAN and the Mekong subregion still do not have decent rights­based regulations and safety nets in place to ensure justice for migrants, say nongovernmental organisations.

    Human Rights Lead Story Migrants Issues News

    Suu Kyi apologises to migrants

    Aung San Suu Kyi has apologised to supporters who stood in the rain for hours hoping to see her during her visit to Mahachai on Thursday.

    A young girl packs crab at the port of Ranong in southern Thailand. (PHOTO: John Hulme)

    Lead Story Migrants Issues News Suu Kyi

    Migrant rights groups call for action ahead of Suu Kyi’s trip to Thailand

    Rights groups have renewed a call for a long-term migration policy between Burma and Thailand.

    DVB Debate: Protecting Burma’s migrants video

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    DVB Debate: Protecting Burma’s migrants

    Panellists on DVB Debate discuss how to protect the millions of migrant labourers who leave Burma in search of work.

    News Politics

    Migrant schools face closure amid funding cuts

    More than two dozen migrant schools in western Thailand face closure as international donors continue to slash funding for groups on the Thai-Burma border

    News Politics

    Social media fuels police crackdown on Shan migrants in Thailand

    Shan migrants in northern Thailand have become the targets of an online hate campaign and systematic police crackdown, after news spread of a series of gang-related attacks in Chiang Mai

    Politics

    Migrant school to teach Burmese curriculum in Thailand

    A new primary school for migrant children is set to open near Bangkok next month, where students will be able to study their native curriculum in the Burmese language for the first time

    News Politics

    Deportation threat for 1m Burma migrants

    Deadline for Thailand verification extended but rights groups warn many migrants may not make it, with stateless at most risk

    News Politics

    Fleeing migrants lacking food, water

    Up to 1,000 Burmese arrested after escaping flooding in central Thailand are being detained and struggling to access food and water

    Analysis

    Minimum wage and the migrant ‘bogeyman’

    Will Burmese migrants working in Thailand receive the minimum wage as promised by the new government? And will the Kingdom be ‘flooded’ by migrants or a fear of them?

    News Politics

    Thais, Malaysians reject migrant rights

    Poll finds that more than 80 percent of Thais and Malaysians believe unauthorised migrants do not deserve workplace rights

    Business News

    Burma shuns Dhaka migrant conference

    Government officials absent from major conference on migrant-sending nations, despite 10 percent of Burma travelling abroad to work

    Business News

    Thai, Burma ministers talk migrants

    Bilateral discussion ‘fruitful’ as factory owners met list of demands from some 700 striking Burmese migrant workers near Bangkok

    Business Elections News

    Migrants indifferent to looming vote

    As international media trains its eye on happenings inside Burma, millions of migrants outside of the country appear uninterested in the vote

    News Politics

    ‘Thousands’ of Burmese migrants in hiding

    Up to 5000 migrants in hiding in western Thailand after police sweep factories in Mae Sot border town, arresting 750 and threatening deportation

    News Politics Uncategorized

    Thailand to register migrant children

    Dec 10, 2009 (DVB), Children of migrant workers from Burma, Laos and Cambodia will soon be registered by the Thai government and eligible to enroll in school, migrant organisations have[…]

    News

    500 migrant workers sue Thai employers

    Nov 6, 2009 (DVB), Hundreds of Burmese migrant workers in a Thai border town have filed a lawsuit against their employers for allegedly failing to pay salaries, a migrant organisation[…]

    News

    Migrant group welcomes UN report

    Oct 7, 2009 (DVB), A recent UN human development report that takes a positive stance on migration has been welcomed by a Thai-border based Burmese migrant workers group. The UN[…]

    News

    Rohingya excluded from Thai migrant worker permits

    July 13, 2009 (DVB), Burma's Rohingya minority have been excluded from verification procedures that will see greater numbers of Burmese migrants being allowed to legally work in Thailand. Burmese migrants[…]

    News

    Thai education reform to benefit Burmese migrants

    June 26, 2009 (DVB), Burmese migrants and refugees living on the periphery of Thai society could benefit from the Thai government's new plans to strengthen its education policy for migrant[…]

    Health News

    Migrant workers denied medical care

    Apr 1, 2009 (DVB), Two Thai-based organisations have urged the United Nations to provide assistance to Burmese migrant workers in Thailand whose labour rights were being denied by their employers.[…]

    News

    Burmese migrant killed in car crash

    Feb 25, 2009 (DVB), A car carrying more than 30 Burmese migrant workers in Chiang Mai overturned on 20 February, killing one person and seriously injuring another. A nine-year-old girl[…]

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    Red Ribbon Award honours Burmese migrant organisation

    Dec 1, 2008 (DVB), An Thailand-based organisation providing shelter, healthcare and education to HIV-positive Burmese migrant women is one of 25 community-based organisations selected to receive the Red Ribbon Award.[…]

    Uncategorized

    Compensation awarded to migrants' families

    Jul 25, 2008 (DVB), The families of 54 Burmese migrants who suffocated to death in a lorry in Thailand in April are to receive compensation from the Thai government and[…]

    Labour Issues Lead Story Migrants Issues News

    Thailand cracks down on Burmese workers

    The arrest of thousands of Burmese migrants in Thailand over the last 10 days is linked to the end of the “pink card” registration period, say migrant rights groups.

    Lead Story Migrants Issues News

    100 Burmese lose jobs as security guards in Mae Sot

    According to a new Thai law laid down in March, all security guards must be Thai citizens.

    Feature Lead Story Migrants Issues News Refugees

    Living on 10 baht a day

    Expectations are high that this week’s visit to Thailand by Aung San Suu Kyi will help raise awareness of issues affecting the millions of Burmese migrant workers in the country.

    Labour Issues Lead Story News

    Maid in Thailand

    Burmese domestic workers often suffer intolerable conditions in neighbouring Thailand. But activists say it can all change.

    Business News

    ASEAN chief fears Thai labour drain

    Surin Pitsuwan adds voice to concerns that job creation in reforming Burma will damage Thai industry reliant on migrant workers

    Analysis

    Thailand’s labour flashpoint

    Recent strikes by Burmese migrant workers in northeastern Thailand highlight a wider malaise in the Kingdom’s treatment of a key economic crutch

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