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Thailand and Burma have agreed to set up a joint working committee to solve labour problems arising from confusion over Thailand’s tough new migrant worker rules.
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Malaysia has some two million registered migrant workers but also an equal number of undocumented ones.
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More than 1,000 Burmese migrants have returned via the Maw Taung border checkpoint in Tenasserim, with perhaps a similar number crossing at Kawthaung, the southernmost port in Burma.
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Thailand needs to get tough on illegal migrant workers to meet commitments it has made to the international community to combat human trafficking, Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha says.
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Tens of thousands of workers have fled Thailand, most of them for homes in neighbouring Burma, after new labour regulations adopted by the military government sparked fear and panic among the migrant community.
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Thailand’s caretaker Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has reacted to the crisis, attempting to loosen the harsh law that spurred the exodus.
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Acting on a stringent new labour law, Thai police are leading a crackdown on Burmese migrant workers.
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Burma’s government is keeping an eye on the situation for its migrant workers in Qatar as a diplomatic crisis has engulfed the Middle Eastern emirate, vowing to assist any Burmese nationals facing difficulties as a result of the regional upheaval.
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British rights activist Andy Hall files lawsuits against Thai authorities and a major Thai fruit producer, accusing them of unlawful prosecution over a 2014 criminal defamation case against him that had been thrown out of court.
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Moe Gyo said that Thai police inspected farms, crafts workshops and small businesses, mostly focusing on workplaces that are not officially registered.
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Burmese nationals left near a deserted shrimp farm by job recruiters who promised to return and take them to Malaysia.
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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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An accommodation zone for migrant workers in Thailand, a government project piloted in Samut Sakhon and Ranong, has received positive feedback from Burmese workers who now find themselves in better and more affordable living conditions.
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Burmese nationals lead more than 2,000 migrant workers at a major Thai seafood exporting company in calling for bigger bonuses and better welfare benefits, a rare demand in a country that bars foreigners from forming trade unions.
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Thailand’s Labour Ministry has urged migrant workers to have their nationalities verified by their respective countries or risk being deported after their work permits expire this year.
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Authorities in Thailand have pledged to study how to make living quarters for foreign workers better to improve their quality of life.
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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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Burma said on Monday it had sent out safety instructions to its migrant workers in Malaysia after attackers hacked five of them to death with swords, weeks after it barred workers from going there, partly because of security fears.
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Residents of the neighbourhood in Malaysia where five Burmese migrant workers were killed by armed assailants last week told a local daily that the violence was uncharacteristic in a community made up of many foreign workers simply looking to earn a living.
A former Police General Hospital doctor, Police Colonel Supat Laohawattana, who was handed a death sentence for murdering his Burmese migrant farm worker, has been arrested in Burma, reports say.
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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.
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The Department of Labour in Naypyidaw on Tuesday ordered overseas employment agencies to temporarily stop sending migrants to Malaysia amid rising tensions between the two countries over the treatment of Rohingya Muslims in western Burma.
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A new exhibition at Rangoon’s Deitta Gallery explores the lives of Burmese migrants in Thailand.
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Thailand moves to enforce restrictions on the kinds of jobs foreigners can do as more Thais come to view migrants as competitors in a weak economy.
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A Facebook post that alerted a group of Burmese migrants to their own exploitation has triggered a landmark case on the rights of foreign workers in Thailand.
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Nearly 3,000 migrants — more than half of them from Burma — have been arrested in Thailand in less than a year for working in the country illegally.
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A group of Burmese workers is suing their former employer, a poultry farm in Thailand, for $1.33 million in compensation for alleged abuses.
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The Burmese embassy in Bangkok has acknowledged that cards it had issued to two Burmese migrants rights groups working in Thailand had been “confiscated”, but denied that the move would[…]
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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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Thailand’s Department of Employment warns employers to ensure their migrant workers register before the 29 July deadline or face harsh punishments.
