Hundreds of Laotians are lining up daily outside the Lao Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vientiane to apply for or renew passports so they can go to neighboring Thailand, where they hope to find better paying jobs and escape crippling inflation at home. Laotians say it has become increasingly difficult to eke out a living
The holiday known as Tet is the most important festival in Vietnamese culture. VGCL, Vietnams primary trade union, said factories and services closed for 9 days, from Jan. 29 to Feb. 6, to celebrate. ” During the last strike, the provincial labor union came to negotiate with the company however to no avail,” she said.
Reported by RFAs Vietnamese Service. Equated by Anna Vu. Written in English by Roseanne Gerin. More than 2,000 employees at a Korean electronics company factory in Vietnams Red River Delta went on strike on Monday, following an effective worker action at another foreign-owned plant in the country, local media reported. Staff Members at Cresyn Hanoi
Construction workers in Myanmars mall Yangon are moving in large numbers to the countrys western Rakhine state as jobs dry up in the house due to political instability following in 2015s military coup, sources say. Formerly torn by violent ethnic clashes that saw thousands of the states Rohingya ethnic minority expelled to Bangladesh, Rakhine is
