Migration
Informal migration for labor
Covid Insurance Now Mandatory for Foreign Workers in Laos
A new regulation issued by the Ministry of Public Security sees all foreign workers entering Laos required to purchase Covid-19 insurance.A notice issued by the Ministry of Public Security on 15 December 2022 outlines the regulations on health insurance for foreign labor, which have been ...
Phontham Visapra
Authorities Clarify Protest by Myanmar Laborers in SEZ
The Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone (SEZ) went into lockdown on Friday following the confirmation of community spread after some local workers left the zone. Authorities of the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone (SEZ) have issued a statement regarding a protest by laborers from Myanmar. The protest ...
Phayboune Thanabouasy
Migrant Workers Stranded by COVID-19 Lockdown Desperate to Leave Laos SEZ
Workers at a special economic zone (SEZ) in northern Laos that caters to Chinese gamblers are desperate to return to their homes amid an outbreak of the coronavirus that triggered a lockdown earlier this week, saying they haven’t been paid in months and can no ...
RFA
Thailand Agrees to Vaccinate Migrant Workers Against Covid-19
According to a notice issued by the Lao Embassy to Thailand, Thai authorities have agreed to facilitate vaccinations for foreigners, including Lao migrant workers in Thailand.The notice states that vaccines will be first be administered to priority groups, including people over 60 years of age and people ...
Phayboune Thanabouasy
Lao Migrants Fleeing Poverty Defy Dangers to Work in Thailand
Lao workers, many of them young and some still in their teens, have poured in growing numbers this year into neighboring Thailand, braving exploitation and unsafe work conditions in search of employment to help support families back home, sources in the Southeast Asian nation say.Many ...
RFA’s Lao Service
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/laos/migrants-08272019160657.html
Ten Lao Migrant Workers Die, Three Injured in Thailand Road Crash
Ten undocumented Lao migrant workers were killed and three others were seriously injured in a head-on collision early Sunday in eastern Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province while traveling by van to Chanthaburi province on the border of Cambodia to renew their tourist visas, Thai police said.“There ...
RFA’s Lao Service
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/laos/ten-lao-migrant-workers-die-08202019144737.html
Lao Migrant Youth Increasingly Looking for Work in China
Young people from the northern provinces of Laos are increasingly moving across the border to China in search of jobs and higher wages.Facing limited prospects at home, youth from Laos’ remote mountainous regions choose to become undocumented economic migrants in China’s neighboring Yunnan province, where ...
RFA’s Lao Service
UNDP-ILO Report compares labour migration processes between Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Thailand
Regular labour migration yielded more positive outcomes than irregular channels between Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Thailand, says a new study by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Labour Organization (ILO).More ...
UNDP-ILO