KUALA LUMPUR - Nearly 100,000 Indonesian workers in Malaysia will be laid off and sent home by the end of the year as the economic downturn hits, a report said Wednesday.Malaysia has already banned the hiring of new foreign workers in factories, stores and restaurants due to...
Hong Kong may be home to a huge population, but residents keen on visiting the Magic Kingdom would ostensibly do so rather quickly, and not necessarily go again and again. Meanwhile, just over the border lies...
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The discovery of 20 dead Haitian migrants in the Bahamas seas, are seen as further evidence of troubled times in Haiti. Haiti has experienced food riots and protests over rising fuel prices in recent weeks."Every years, thousands of Haitians try to leave their...
South Korean immigration agents arrested three top leaders of the Migrants' Trade Union ("MTU"), on November 28, 2007.The arrests occurred near-simultaneously on early Tuesday morning, MTU President (Kajiman),...
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The cards were not only stacked against Dr. Juanita de la Cruz, but she and her family weren't even dealt a full hand. In spite of poverty and the life as a migrant worker, this remarkable woman earned her Ph.D. and is passing on her wisdom to countless others."San Juanita de...
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"Britain's shame: Modern-day slavesBut this is already happening in Canada. Nannies and farmworkers are considered indentured servants under provincial employment laws, and by the Federal Governments migrant/temporary worker program. At least in Britain they have called...
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"Lunchtime arrives and hundreds of young, weary workers in company shirts flood through factory gates and out into the sweltering southern air. Most are migrants in their own country. Born poor in rural China,...
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"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door" <--- 21st Century interpretation: ...
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