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Asia focus, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 12/12/2016
» Thailand, Asean and the Mekong Subregion still do not have decent rights-based regulations and safety nets in place to ensure justice for migrants, say non-government organisations.
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 01/10/2013
» WASHINGTON - The United States government began a partial funding shutdown on Oct 1, the first since the Clinton era 17 years ago, idling up to 800,000 federal employees, closing national parks and halting some services after Congress failed to break a partisan deadlock by a midnight deadline.
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 09/02/2013
» Myanmar hopes Thailand will allow more time for documenting an estimated one million migrant workers if the nationality verification (NV) process can't be finished by the March 16 deadline.
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 20/04/2012
» With industrial development still some years off in Myanmar, Nyapyidaw's concern at present is to ensure that migrant workers receive standard rights protection, because their remittances have helped shape the growing economy, Myanmar Deputy Labour Minister Myint Thein said in Bangkok on Thursday evening.
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 05/04/2012
» YANGON - Negotiations between Naypyidaw and Rakhine and Karen ethnic groups are continuing separately as planned in Myanmar's capital right after the April 1 by-elections that brought the National League for Democracy (NLD) party chaired by Noble laureate Aung San Suu Kyi into the parliament.