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SOUTH ASIA

BANGLADESH

• Thousands of Bangladeshi workers return home

INDIA

• Indian detainees in Malaysia to be repatriated

NEPAL

• Fewer Nepalis leave for overseas work

SRI LANKA

• Crisis has no impact on Sri Lankan migrants, study says

CENTRAL ASIA

UZBEKISTAN

• Crisis affects Uzbek migrant workers

PACIFIC

AUSTRALIA

• Immigrants boost Australia’s population; fewer international visitors

• Australia to slash migrant worker intake by 14 percent

• Supplier of unauthorized workers discovered

• South Australia to hire Filipino workers for mining industry

• Australia-Indonesia work and holiday visa agreement

• Australia develops guidelines for helping trafficked people

• Australia removes detention bill for asylum seekers

NEW ZEALAND

• Fewer New Zealand migrants heading to Australia

• Govt may cut migrant worker intake

• Eco-migrants find new home in New Zealand

SOUTHEAST ASIA

BRUNEI

• Whipping of unauthorized migrants slammed

BURMA

• More Burmese workers abroad to lose jobs

CAMBODIA

• Overseas job opportunities for Cambodians

INDONESIA

• Second batch of nurses to leave for Japan

MALAYSIA

• Malaysia to prioritize locals over foreign workers amid economic crisis

• Malaysia cancels work visas of 55,000 Bangladeshis

• Malaysia marked as human trafficking site

PHILIPPINES

• Thousands of jobs still open to OFWs

• OFWs take more jobs, save more to cope with crisis

• Economic crisis could reinforce human trafficking

• Remittances expected to decline in 2009

• Deployment ban to continue until Lebanon signs agreement

• Seafarer training project under RP-Japan pact

• Senate to amend anti-trafficking law

• Assistance to Japanese-Filipino children

• Recruiters call for amendment of unified contract scheme

• Protecting OFWs from drug smuggling

• Victims of illegal recruitment, distressed OFWs return home

• Somali pirates kidnap more Filipino seafarers

• Sentosa nurses file lawsuit against prosecutors

• Bureau of Immigration blacklists HK journalist

• Ongoing registration for overseas absentee voting

SINGAPORE

• Foreign workers take jobs shunned by locals

• Foreign workers housed in illegal dormitories

• Organ payment policy worries lawmakers

THAILAND

• Job losses for migrant workers in Thailand

• Unauthorized migrants nabbed

• Thailand to work with UNCHR on Rohingya migrants

• UN report criticizes Thai treatment of migrants, refugees

• Thai govt to send Hmong refugees to Laos

VIETNAM

• More than 2,500 Vietnamese victims of trafficking rescued

• Deployment of Vietnamese workers

MIDDLE EAST

BAHRAIN

• Foreign homemakers can access more jobs

• Taxes on hiring foreign crew members suspended

IRAQ

• Germany to accept 2,500 Iraqi refugees

KUWAIT

• Foreign labor in 2008 declines

QATAR

• Qatar launches anti-trafficking campaign

• Support for Somali refugees in Yemen

SAUDI ARABIA

• Saudi Arabia needs foreign medical workers

UAE

• Four out of 10 expatriates to leave UAE

• 123 unauthorized migrants nabbed

• Fewer complaints by Indonesian domestic workers in 2008

• Support for Palestinian refugees