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    35 Search results for "nationality verification"

    Lead Story Migrants Issues News

    Burmese embassy to conduct site visits to migrants in Thailand

    Embassy staff are to assist migrant workers who hold “pink cards” for their stay in Thailand, but who do not have Nationality Verification Cards.

    Lead Story Migrants Issues News

    160,000 Burmese working abroad thanks to MoU scheme: Govt

    Burma and Japan are currently negotiating a fresh MoU aimed at creating technical training programmes in Japan, as well as protecting trainees’ rights.

    Lead Story Migrants Issues News

    Burmese migrants: From Pink Cards to Green Books

    Burmese migrants in Thailand can now apply for – and pay for – papers to allow them to travel freely around the kingdom.

    Lead Story Migrants Issues News

    Burmese migrants benefit from low-cost housing in Thailand

    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.

    Labour Issues Lead Story Migrants Issues News

    Thai govt issues new migrant worker threat

    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.

    Lead Story Migrants Issues News

    Thais to hire ‘language coordinators’ to help with migrants

    Thailand’s Labour Ministry agrees to allow Thai companies to hire Burmese and other foreign nationals to work as language coordinators to help with migrant staff.

    Lead Story Migrants Issues News Suu Kyi

    Suu Kyi, Thai govt to sign new migrant deal

    The agreement will significantly shorten the “work break” period that migrants must stay in Burma after their Thai work permits expire.

    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.

    Lead Story Migrants Issues News

    Thai police say no to relaxed rules for migrants

    Thai police oppose measures to relax regulations on migrant workers, saying they breach international immigration principles and will adversely affect Thailand’s migrant labour management.

    Lead Story Migrants Issues News

    Migrant workers exempted from Thai visa fees for Songkran

    From now until 20 April, migrant workers in Thailand can return to their home countries visa free if they have the permission of their employers.

    Lead Story Migrants Issues News

    Thailand to let migrants update labour cards at 7-Eleven

    A new scheme approved by Thailand’s department of labour will make it more convenient for migrant to extend their permits to work in the Kingdom.

    Lead Story Migrants Issues News

    Thai labour office recommends extension to migrant worker programme

    Thailand’s employment department has recommended that the government extend its current ‘pink card’ migrant worker programme by a further two years.

    Lead Story Migrants Issues News

    Migrant workers’ families barred from 2017, says Thai PM

    Thousands of Burmese face an emotional and social dilemma if Gen. Prayut’s plan to bar migrant workers from bringing their families to Thailand is enforced.

    Arakan Interview Lead Story News Politics

    Respect the rule of law – and the citizenship act

    DVB speaks to Dr. Aye Maung following his appointment as RNP chairman. He discusses the recent RNP conference and the party’s policies, as well as addressing the status of Rohingyas (or Bengalis) in Arakan State.

    Aid Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya

    Arakan officials snub OIC offers of help

    Arakanese authorities complain that they were not properly informed of the OIC’s visit and again turned down the Islamic bloc’s request to establish a presence in the state.

    Lead Story News Politics

    Most Burmese migrants want to go home, says IOM

    Most Burmese migrant workers in Thailand would like to return home, according to survey results released on Wednesday (International Migrants Day) by the Thai office of the International Organisation of Migration.

    Lead Story News Politics

    Western shrimp imports ‘fuel’ trafficking of Burmese migrants

    Western demand for Thai-produced shrimps is fuelling an epidemic of abuses, including child and forced labour, among Burmese migrants working in the poorly-regulated industry, a new report warned on Thursday.

    Features

    Burmese migrants face ‘systemic’ exploitation near border

    “I was fired two days after my child was born,” explains Zaw Lay, gesturing to his infant son cradled in his mother’s arms on the dusty floor. “I begged them not to[…]

    Politics

    Burmese embassy to issue migrant children with passports

    The Burmese embassy in Thailand will begin issuing temporary passports for children of registered migrant workers on Thursday, according to a government spokesperson

    News Politics

    ‘Legal’ Burmese migrants still face exploitation in Thailand

    Burmese migrants, who have arrived ‘legally’ in Thailand under a bilateral agreement between the two countries, continue to be systematically exploited and abused by their Thai employers, activists have warned

    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

    Business News Politics

    Migrants to face challenges in seeking minimum wage

    Rights group expresses concern that Burmese migrant workers will struggle to claim new Thai minimum wage plans that were voted for in Thailand’s recent election

    News Politics

    Unions accuse Thai govt of migrant abuse

    Trade union consortium claims Bangkok is guilty of violating international law on the rights of migrants working without protection

    News Politics

    Burmese ‘rampage’ in Thai factory

    Some 1000 migrant workers destroy vehicles and attack security guards after a fight erupts in a chicken factory in central Thailand

    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

    Thais protest Burma migrant driving licenses

    1000-strong group of taxi drivers in Ranong complain that the government’s granting of driver licenses to Burmese migrants could threaten their jobs

    Health News

    Thailand petitioned over migrant rights

    Rights groups ask Thai government to entitle migrant workers ‘living in seriously degrading conditions’ to government accident compensation

    News Politics

    Thailand launches mass migrant crackdown

    Police targeting migrant workers who failed to register for legal status in Thailand but rights groups warn of indiscriminate arrests and extortion

    News Politics

    Thai PM sets up migrant ‘arrest centre’

    Burmese likely to bear the brunt of centre charged with ‘suppressing and prosecuting’ migrants in Thailand who fail to register for legal status

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