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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.

Hong Kong (HKSAR) - The Immigration Department yesterday (March 20) arrested 20 illegal workers and five people suspected of employing them during a series of anti-illegal worker operations codenamed "Champion" and "Powerplayer".

BEIJING: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has urged China to force state companies to compete in more open markets and ease movement of migrants into cities to keep its economic growth strong.

A policy initiative designed to encourage highly skilled foreign professionals to come and stay in Japan is not working out as the Justice Ministry had envisioned.

HONG KONG — Hong Kong's top court ruled against two Filipino domestic helpers seeking permanent residency Monday, the final decision in a case that affects tens of thousands of other foreign maids in the southern Chinese financial hub.

Manufacturing wages in the Pearl River Delta region in southern China are expected to rise 9.2 percent this year, compared with the 7.6 percent rate of growth respondents reported for wages last year, Standard Chartered said in a report on Monday.

Migrant workers without proper registration unable to make themselves at home in the cities, Jiang Xueqing reports in Beijing.

The health ministry said Monday that 30 nurse candidates from the Philippines and Indonesia passed the qualification test in February needed to be nurses in Japan.