Channel News Asia | 4 October 2018 YANGON, Myanmar: A “mafia” of recruitment agents is trapping Myanmar migrants to Thailand in debt bondage despite a 2017 law meant to fight exploitation in the kingdom’s notoriously shadowy job market, activists and workers say. Migrant labour – much of it from Myanmar – has propped up Thailand’s […]
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The ASEAN Post | 5 October 2018 A “mafia” of recruitment agents is trapping Myanmar migrants to Thailand in debt bondage despite a 2017 law meant to fight exploitation in the kingdom’s notoriously shadowy job market, activists and workers say. Migrant labour – much of it from Myanmar – has propped up Thailand’s economy for
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France 24 | 4 October 2018 A “mafia” of recruitment agents is trapping Myanmar migrants to Thailand in debt bondage despite a 2017 law meant to fight exploitation in the kingdom’s notoriously shadowy job market, activists and workers say. The Myanmar brokers — or their sub-agents — scour rural villages for workers and transfer all
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Irrawady |24 September 2018 Myanmar yesterday opened a “one-stop” office in southern Thailand’s Ranong province to facilitate the recruitment of Myanmar migrant workers by Thai fishing companies and to provide any assistance the workers may need, according to migrant labor advocacy groups in Thailand. The office will handle Thai visa renewals for workers so they
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Xinhuanet | 17 august 2018 YANGON — Myanmar will send 40,000 migrant workers to work in Thailand’s fishing industry under a memorandum of understanding system in accordance with Thailand’s offer, Myanmar News Agency reported Friday. The issue topped the discussions on labor affairs between Myanmar Minister of Labor, Immigration and Population U Thein Swe and
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By: Penchan Charoensuthipan Bangkok Post | 18 August 2018 Myanmar has expressed an interest in sending 42,000 workers to fill vacancies in the commercial fishing sector, according to Labour Minister Pol Gen Adul Sangsingkeo. If the deal is signed, these workers, largely from coastal areas including Myeik and Kawthong, will be brought in under a
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Bangkok Post | 6 August 2018 A plan to attract thousands of foreign workers into the Thai fishing industry is taking shape with Labour Minister Adul Sangsingkeo likely to meet his counterparts from Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam after Aug 15 to establish the terms. Govt to seek migrants for fish industry The date is
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By: Zaw Zaw HTWE Myanmar Times | 11 Oct 2017 Workers’ lobby groups wants the Thai government to raise daily wages for all workers, including local and foreign, to 700 baht (nearly K 28,500) from the current about 350 baht per day to commensurate with the rising cost of living. The Thailand labor unions, the
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By the Myanmar Times | 13 March 2017 Myanmar and Thailand signed a bilateral MOU to govern the labour migration between the two, especially from Myanmar to Thailand. The MOU provides a framework to facilitate regular labour migration by focusing more on admission procedures, prevention of irregular migration and employment, and repatriation of migrant workers,
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19 January 2016, The Rakyat Post Myanmar recruiters reportedly will no longer be sending migrant workers to Malaysia to protest against the almost tenfold increase in visa fee, from US$6 (RM26) to US$57 (RM250) which came into effect recently. The Myanmar Times quoted Mohd Fadzli Kadir, project director of a one-stop centre set up to
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