6 January 2015, Jakarta Post Opinion Column: Yoshiteru Uramoto, ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific On a recent trip to Cambodia I met a group of young people who were eager to pursue a better life by going to work abroad, although they were c... read more
19 December 2014, The Cambodia Daily The Labor Ministry on Thursday launched a new three-year policy for improving the lot of Cambodia’s more than 700,000 migrant workers that includes plans to step up monitoring of the country’s often-abusive recruit... read more
21 October 2014, The Phnom Penh Post Twenty-five migrant workers who claim they were duped out of hundreds of dollars by a Phnom Penh-based recruitment agency promising jobs in Thailand were repatriated yesterday after being arrested and detained by Thai ... read more
25 September 2014, The Irrawaddy CHIANG MAI, Thailand — Thai authorities in the border town of Mae Sot have arrested scores of Burmese migrant workers and a group of Thai nationals accused of illegally recruiting them, the Burmese Embassy in Bangkok has... read more
28 August 2014, The Cambodia Daily A group of 50 migrant workers on Wednesday protested outside a branch of a recruitment agency in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district that they say duped them out of $260 they paid for a guarantee of employment in Thailand. T... read more
22 August 2014, The Phnom Penh Post Nearly 200 Cambodian migrant workers who were scammed by their broker and then abandoned south of Bangkok earlier this week are among the latest victims falling between the cracks of an ill-defined labour registration s... read more
1 August 2014, Bangkok Post The Labour Ministry is ready to import Bangladeshi labourers to work in the fishing industry if there is still a worker shortage following registrations of migrant workers from three neighbouring countries. Permanent secretary ... read more
29 July 2014, The Cambodia Daily Nang Kumnour, a 25-year-old migrant worker who tried to enter Thailand last week, is too embarrassed to return home. A former construction worker in Thailand, Ms. Kumnour was duped out of $200 when a recruitment agency pro... read more
14 June 2014, Leader-Post He was too sick to eat, and Min Min Chan’s chest ached with each breath he sucked. It didn’t matter: The Thai captain warned him to get back on deck and start hauling fish onto the trawler or be tossed overboard. As a... read more
17 July 2014, Laignee Barron, Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan, The Phnom Penh Post Almost all of the men from Banteay Chhmar commune in Banteay Meanchey province are gone, swept back over the border to Thailand even more suddenly than their brief homecoming... read more