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Some 359 illegal foreign workers have been detained by police in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region near the Sino-Vietnam border in the first two month of this year, the Xinhua News Agency reported Sunday.

A group of foreign domestic helpers want a requirement for them to live with their employers to be scrapped.

TEMPO Interactive, Hong Kong:State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) Minister Dahlan Iskan has asked state enterprises to improve migrant workers’ skills through entrepreneurial training.

The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has decided that from April foreign nursing care trainees from Indonesia and the Philippines will be regarded as regular employees whose wages can be paid through the nursing care insurance system, it has been learned.

BEIJING - The 12th National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, has given 31 seats to migrant workers, a drastic rise from three in the 11th NPC, a spokeswoman said Monday.

China-North Korea: South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported on 28 February that one of its sources said that Chinese authorities have started cracking down on North Korean migrant workers.

A group of international human rights experts yesterday urged Taiwan to scrap the death penalty and protect the rights of Aboriginal people, migrant workers, prisoners, gay people and other minority groups, as well as former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁).

Taipei, March 1 (CNA) International experts on Friday urged Taiwan to scrap the death penalty and protect the rights of indigenous people, migrant workers, prisoners, gay people and other minority groups as well as the rights of former president Chen Shui-bian.