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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24 December 2015, Myanmar Times The report into working conditions in Thailand’s poultry industry named three licensed Myanmar recruiting firms – Yun Nadi Oo, Arbourfield and Top Today Star – that were sending workers to Thailand through official channels established under a 2003 memorandum of understanding. The report by European NGOs Swedwatch and Finnwatch said
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21 December 2015, Myanmar Times The government’s labour recruitment offices are failing, leaving workers to scrounge for jobs through informal networks rife with opportunistic brokers, according to a new report. In the absence of a functioning, official employment system, the vast majority of over 7000 workers interviewed – 72 percent – said they found jobs
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7 April 2015, Myanmar Times After a Russian trawler crewed in part by 42 Myanmar fishermen sank in a tragic disaster last week, the veil was lifted on a duplicitous recruitment scheme that has for years profited by illegally tricking labourers onto fishing boats, The Myanmar Times has learned. Two of the five Myanmar recruitment agencies responsible
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10 March 2015, Taipei Times Negotiations with Myanmar on introducing Burmese nationals as agricultural and industrial workers could be finalized within two months, the Ministry of Labor said yesterday. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are also seen as potential new sources of labor to mitigate an expected shortfall of migrant workers, Workforce Development Agency director Liu
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12 January 2015, Myanmar Times Unable to move except for her head, Thuzar Myint lies motionless in the hospital bed. The bones in her right leg and back are broken and the bones on the left side of her body are cracked. “I was unconscious for two weeks. Even now, three months later, my condition
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24 November 2014, dvb.no An MoU has been signed between Macau and Burma for the former Portuguese colony to take in 5,000 Burmese migrant workers per year. The Myanmar Overseas Employment Agency Association and its Macanese counterpart on Friday signed the MoU at Rangoon’s Yuzana Hotel. In addition to contracting Burmese workers, the non-binding contract
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