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Indonesian embassy settles 99 pct migrant worker cases

The Indonesian Embassy in Riyadh, has successfully recovered US$2.6 million unpaid wages and settled 99 percent cases ...

Regional minimum wages increase by 18.32 pct in 2013

The average increase of the Provincial Minimum Wages (UMP) in 2013 is set at about 18.32 percent, up from the average ...

Plane crash pilot`s bodies to be brought to Jakarta

The bodies of Susi Air`s pilot Captain Jonathan Willis and Australian surveyor Russell Ian McDougall will soon be ...

Indonesian labor movement not yet influential: LIPI

The labour movement in Indonesia has not yet become an influential power in the country`s political arena, even though ...

Govt to repatriate 116 migrant workers from Syria

The Indonesian government is to repatriate 116 migrant workers from Syria because of tense political and security ...

Migrant worker escapes death penalty in Saudi, returns to Indonesia

Fitra Yanti Binti Ali Mali, an Indonesian migrant worker, is heading home on April 19, 2012, after charges were ...

Having children soon not in the cards for many working women

More than half of Taiwan`s female office workers will not consider having children within the next three years, ...

Tuareg rebels seize Timbuktu, say Malian `occupation` over

The Tuareg rebel movement Sunday said it had wrested control of the legendary desert town of Timbuktu, the last ...

Triple bomb attack kills nine in Thailand

Three bomb attacks minutes apart killed nine people and wounded more than 100 on Saturday in the main town in ...

7 killed in Ayutthaya highway accident

Seven people were killed and 12 others injured today when a pickup truck carrying illegal Myanmar migrant workers ...

Workers say fuel price hike reduces their buying power

The Alliance of Confederations and Federations of Workers Unions said the planned fuel price hike will reduce workers` ...

RI to stop sending domestic helpers in 2017

Indonesia will stop sending domestic helpers to foreign countries beginning in 2017, Manpower Transmigration Minister ...

3 suicide attackers killed in eastern Afghanistan

Afghan police shot dead three suicide bombers attempting to target mayoral offices in the east of the country on ...

Team to save migrant workers` lives in Saudi Arabia

The government is racing against time to save the lives of seven migrant workers on death row in Saudi Arabia, where ...

US-Europe crisis not to cause mass layoffs in Indonesia

The economic crisis in the United States and Europe is unlikely to cause massive worker layoffs in Indonesia, a senior ...