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Taipei, April 18 (CNA) The director-general of the National Immigration Agency (NIA) said Thursday that there are loopholes in the immigration laws that can hinder efforts to stamp out marriages of convenience and control the number of people residing in Taiwan illegally.

The phenomenon of illegal work was another concern during the plenary AL session as legislators said the government’s enforcement was ineffective and suggested amendments to the law to put illegal workers into jail as a possible deterrence.

Taipei, April 15 (CNA) A Vietnamese migrant worker ran away Monday, shortly before he was due to board a flight at Taiwan Taoyuan International airport bound for his home country, the Aviation Police Office reported.

Taipei, April 14 (CNA) Foreign laborers in Taiwan were offered a free service in Taipei Sunday in which they could have basic health checkups and medical counseling, the organizers of the event said that day.

Workers to benefit from detailed central government guidelines. Detailed rules for migrant workers who want to apply for government-subsidized houses in cities will be released in eight months, the country's top housing authority said.

South Korea needs to toughen requirements for companies seeking to employ foreign workers in a bid to protect the employment of its own citizens in relatively low-skilled work fields, a state-run think tank said Tuesday.

The government is prepared to evacuate 30,000 migrant workers from South Korea on account of the high tension on the Korean Peninsula, said an official.

Last month, a Chinese trainee went on a stabbing rampage at a Hiroshima Prefecture seafood company where he worked, killing the president and an employee and wounding six others.