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
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
Reported by RFAs Vietnamese Service. Equated by Anna Vu. Composed in English by Richard Finney Around 300 Vietnamese employees are being held in isolation at a China-backed power plant amid COVID-19 concerns and have actually been refused approval to return house for the Lunar New Year, sources in the nation state. The employees have actually
