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Bangkok factory boss gives in to Burmese workers’ demands
A factory boss has agreed to compensate Burmese workers at a motorcycle helmet factory in Bangkok after the migrants staged a one-day strike.
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A factory boss has agreed to compensate Burmese workers at a motorcycle helmet factory in Bangkok after the migrants staged a one-day strike.
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Burmese migrants in Thailand can now apply for – and pay for – papers to allow them to travel freely around the kingdom.
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Malaysian police detained 15 suspects after the grisly murder of five Burmese migrant workers outside the factory where they worked in Kuala Lumpur.
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A Burmese migrant worker has filed a police report against his Thai employer who he alleges attacked him with a chain, leaving him with lacerations all over his body.
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A second Burmese poultry farm worker is to be charged with stealing a time-card from his workplace in Thailand, in a case that is attracting international attention.
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“Ideally, we want you to have passports, and Thailand, your host country, does not object to this,” she told Burmese migrants at the fishing port town.
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According to a new Thai law laid down in March, all security guards must be Thai citizens.
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Burma and Japan are currently negotiating a fresh MoU aimed at creating technical training programmes in Japan, as well as protecting trainees’ rights.
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“The attachés yelled at us, shouted rude things, and threatened to get us arrested for disturbing their work.”