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    Asean enshrines workers' rights but bilateral accords needed

    Asia focus, Published on 18/05/2015

    » Millions of Southeast Asians are working all over the world while intraregional migration of workers from one member state to another is also increasing, prompting the need for a regional approach to protecting and promoting the rights of migrant workers.

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    'Ban them or protect them'

    Asia focus, Published on 18/05/2015

    » The recent executions without notice of two Indonesian maids in Saudi Arabia have prompted the government to issue a blanket ban on the placement of Indonesian women as domestic helpers in the Middle East.

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    Mixed fortunes abroad

    Asia focus, Tanyatorn Tongwaranan, Published on 18/05/2015

    » When 30 Thai workers showed up at Suvarnabhumi Airport one evening last week, they were expecting to receive plane tickets for Australia where high-paying jobs picking grapes awaited them.

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    Migrant crisis tests us all

    Asia focus, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 25/05/2015

    » The image of a "caring and sharing" community of 620 million had already been shattered in the eyes of Asean people and the global community, as starving and helpless Rohingya boat people were driven out of their countries of origin, only to be pushed back by Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.

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    The 'baby bonus' option

    Asia focus, Published on 25/05/2015

    » In countries where the elderly are starting to outnumber the working-age population, one obvious solution is to encourage people to have more babies.

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    Wings of change

    Asia focus, Wanant Kerdchuen, Published on 25/05/2015

    » Most people instantly associate the no-frills carrier AirAsia with its high-profile founder, Tony Fernandes, and few outside the aviation industry would even recognise the company's chief executive officer if they saw her on the street.

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    Food for thought

    Asia focus, Published on 25/05/2015

    » Laos has made impressive strides in economic growth, but its record on childhood nutrition may dash the country's hopes of graduating from least-developed country status by 2020.

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    Change starts now

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 25/05/2015

    » Thailand has a 20-year population development plan that contains many measures to deal with a growing ageing population and a shrinking labour force. However, the country's long record of political volatility suggests that turning plans into meaningful actions will be a challenge.

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    The China Syndrome

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 25/05/2015

    » China's ageing and deflationary cycle will have more far-reaching consequences for the rest of Asia and the world, as the trend is already pushing commodity prices to fall sharply and spreading deflationary pressure in many emerging markets, analysts warn.

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    Silver cycle

    Asia focus, Published on 25/05/2015

    » The sight of 60-year-old cleaners at McDonald's outlets in Singapore is vivid evidence of the greying of Asia. The demographic transition of the city-state is in an advanced stage, similar to that of Japan and South Korea, and other countries will soon follow suit.

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