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Labor rights groups and manpower agencies have voiced their opposition to the government’s threat to suspend the hiring of Filipino workers over the shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman.

Demand increases for teachers from abroad as more seek to learn English.

A set of measures will be further strengthened to better manage foreign experts in China, according to the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs.

ANSAN, South Korea--In the ethnic restaurant district here, signs written in Vietnamese, Russian, Chinese and Indonesian line the streets, and banks post exchange rates for various currencies on their external walls.

The State Council, or China's cabinet, has called for a middle to long-term plan to promote new-style urbanization, enabling more migrant workers and their families to settle in cities.

Most victims don’t report the abuse for fear of losing their legal status in South Korea

Shanghai has more migrant workers born after 1980 than locals of the same age, according to a report released by the Institution of Population and Development under the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.

WASHINGTON – The government is considering increasing the number of foreign engineers and researchers accepted into the country by units of 100,000, according to Yasutoshi Nishimura, senior vice minister at the Cabinet Office.

TAIPEI — Decades ago Taiwan was one of the four fastest-growing economies in Asia. But factories have moved away since then, making China the region’s growth leader.  That dynamic has forced Taiwan to look increasingly to its Southeast Asian migrant workers to get the country's economy back on track.