NIKKEI Asian Review | March 22, 2017 Percentage of guest talent far outpaces Japan’s TOKYO — In the competition to recruit much-needed foreign talent, South Korea’s work permit program is beating that of Japan’s system. In raw numbers, Japan’s 1.08 million foreign workers edge out South Korea’s 960,000. But South Korea’s population of 50 million […]
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11 March 2016, Philippine Information Agency More overseas Filipino workers will have the chance of finding employment opportunities as South Korea’s manufacturing sector increased its quota under the Employment Permit System (EPS) this year. Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz said she received a letter from Choi Junha, Director of the Foreign Workforce Division
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15 April 2015, Focus Taiwan News Channel Jakarta, April 15 (CNA) The Indonesian government said Wednesday it is determined to help lower the brokerage fees for its citizens seeking work in other countries, including Taiwan. Nusron Wahid, head of the Agency of Placement and Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers, said in a parliamentary hearing that
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10 April 2015, Nepali Times We doubt the zero-cost agreement between Qatar and Nepal this week will come into force because there is too much money to be made on the blood, sweat and tears of Nepali workers by the politically-connected manpower mafia. For a country that is so dependent on overseas contract workers, the
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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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8 March 2015, Eurasia Review In response to the unmet demand for labor in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the country, South Korea allowed the entry of foreign labor migrants from countries such as the Philippines in 1993. In Southeast Asia, the Philippines has the second largest number of migrants in South Korea next
17 February 2015, The Cambodia Daily The South Korean government will double the number of Cambodian migrant workers who are granted permits to take up employment in the country’s manufacturing, construction and agriculture sectors each year, officials said on Monday. There are currently more than 35,000 Cambodians working in South Korea who send home remittances
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14 February 2015, The Economist Working abroad is no bargain BROKERS’ billboards outside Tan Lieu, a poor rural community in northern Vietnam, advertise “Labour Export”—jobs abroad. Vietnam’s youthful population of 90m adds up to 1.5m each year to the growing work pool. But economic growth, at 6%, is not fast enough to keep all of
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22 October 2014, The Phnom Penh Post A recruiter was charged yesterday with duping 24 migrant worker hopefuls out of more than $40,000 in exchange for jobs in South Korea that she allegedly had no means of delivering. The workers went to Em Sam Ouen’s Cambodian Organisation for Veteran Economic Development in Phnom Penh last
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