Population and censuses

When one of the biggest food companies in the world, Nestle, found slavery in its supply chains in 2015 it made a public admission, a move praised by anti-slavery groups.[]The company’s investigation found many of the workers were from Myanmar and Cambodia. Some had been ...

New Thai regulations imposing stiff punishments on undocumented migrants, their brokers and their employers set to come into force on January 1 will likely be delayed by three to six months, according to Cambodian Minister of Labour Ith Sam Heng.Keep reading .. ...

The Labour Ministry announced on Friday that the Thai government agreed to extend the deadline for Cambodian officials to complete registration and work permit delivery to Cambodian migrant workers by six months.[]It is estimated about one million workers are still waiting for verification, among them ...

Thailand is equipped with the legal framework and policies to protect the rights of migrants, according to international standards, but their implementation remains a problem, a conference held to mark International Migrants’ Day was told Monday.[]”The Thai government is fulfilling its commitments to an MoU which ...

Myanmar’s Labor Ministry is seeking labor migration agreements with the governments of other Southeast Asian countries and territories to send women there to work legally as maids, a government labor official said Monday.Keep reading ...

Bangladesh today sought Cambodian support towards a “durable solution” to Rohingya crisis as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held official talks with her Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen.[]”As a Ganges basin country, Bangladesh also looks forward to working with Cambodia towards our membership aspiration at the Mekong-Ganga ...

Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore, have become the region’s migration hubs and are now home to 6.5 million migrants from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the World Bank said. Myanmar and Indonesia are the top sources of migrants, the Washington-based lender said in a report ...

The Directorate of Investment and Company Administration (DICA) in partnership with the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ) have published a detailed report entitled The Socio-Economic Atlas of Myanmar.For the first time, the report will provide official details and statistics on Myanmar’s geography, population and climate ...

The Cambodian government will send 360 officials to Thailand to implement a 100-day campaign to give illegal migrant workers proper documents, the labour minister said yesterday, while also accusing an opposition lawmaker and an NGO leader of swaying migrant workers’ votes.Keep reading ...

South Korea’s investment in Asean increased from $0.53 billion in 2000 to $5.1 billion in 2016, while its official development assistance to Asean rose from $85.6 million in 2006 to $418.9 million in 2016.People mobility is remarkable. About six million South Korean tourists visited Asean ...