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Report: Forced labour rife in Malaysia
Reuters, Published on 17/09/2014
» KUALA LUMPUR — Nearly a third of some 350,000 workers in Malaysia's electronics industry — a crucial link in the international consumer supply chain — suffer from conditions of modern-day slavery such as debt bondage, according to a study funded by the US Department of Labor.
Rubber farmers demand sale inquiry
Reuters, Published on 17/09/2014
» Thai rubber growers are calling for an investigation into government claims it sold half the country's stockpile of the commodity, as farmers grow increasingly disillusioned with what they see as a lack of state support.