by Zhao Ziwen and Hayley Wong in SCMP, Aug 26, 2023The armed attack this month on a convoy carrying Chinese workers was just the latest in a string of militant strikes in Pakistan. In the attack on August 13, insurgents targeted a convoy of four bulletproof vehicles carrying 23 Chinese engineers on way to Gwadar Port in Balochistan, a flagship project of the Belt and Road Initiative, China’s plan to grow global trade. None of…
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report in The Daily Star, June 27, 2023At least 2,501 garment, textile, and jute product factories out of 3,164 across the country have not paid their workers 15 days’ wages for the month of June even though the government had asked them to do so before Eid. Only 663 factories paid the wages as of 7:30pm yesterday, according to data from the Industrial Police. However, 2,436 factories did pay the workers their Eid bonuses, the…
report in Daily FT, 2 May 2023 Claims close bond between SLPP and workers was proven on labour day Says all political fights of the party are closely linked to winning rights of workers Alleges forces under the power of imperialists, NGOs and other political groups in recent past launched a conspiracy against SLPP Slams modern-day Trade Unionists claiming they are working to achieve narrow ends Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) leader and former Prime…
report in Dail Mirror, Apr 13, 2023Shanthi Pushparaja (Real name withheld), mother of three children who was taken to Oman promising a job as a house maid is one of those nearly 90 Sri Lankan women who went to the Middles East and ended up in Oman with no way to come back home. Shanthi’s husband who was living in the North and looking after the three children, died suddenly leaving no one to look…
report in The Himalayan Times, Apr 4, 2023Nepal largely depends on technical human resources from foreign countries for the implementation of big projects. According to official data, skilled human resources required for various large projects here are hired from other countries. The Department of Labour and Occupational Safety said workforce from around 100 countries in the world are currently engaged in various projects in Nepal and the Chinese make up the highest portion. Likewise, workers…
by Arjun Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 10, 2023On Monday, a six-year-old boy from Ward-7 of Nepalgunj Sub-metropolitan City was taken to a nearby health facility for immunisation. When health workers inquired about his vaccination status, his parents said that their son has never had any vaccine in his life. “We were not surprised,” Rajan Shahi, a public health inspector, who has been deployed in wards of the Sub-metropolis to study the status of…
by Arjun Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 2, 20223For the last one week, people seeking booster shots and second doses against Covid-19 vaccine have increased manifold at urban health clinics in Ward-1 of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City. Health workers serving in the clinic say that every day they get dozens of phone calls from the public, who are concerned about the news of risks and of another surge in infections. “The number of people…
report in The Guardian, Dec 29, 2022The United Nations said that some “time-critical” programs in Afghanistan have temporarily stopped and warned many other activities will also likely need to be paused because of a ban by the Taliban-led administration on women aid workers. UN aid chief Martin Griffiths, the heads of UN agencies and several aid groups said in a joint statement on Wednesday that women’s “participation in aid delivery is not negotiable and must…
By Chaminda Silva in The Island, Dec 28, 2022Around 15,000 garment workers employed in free trade zones would lose their jobs in 2023, Convener of the Free Trade Zone Workers’ Center, Gamini Ratnayake said. He said there were 148,000 garment workers in 14 free trade zones. It was likely that a number of other factories too would be closed down after new tax laws are implemented, he said. “Recently, one of the largest companies announced…
The worst facet of Chinese colonial empire has been on display in Zambia. It has given a go-by to the long taught Communist theories about workers and their welfare as the bedrock of industry and the society. Workers up in arms are silenced by the barrel of the gun. Zambian police is investigating shooting of workers at a Chinese-run coal mine in the south of the country, in which at least 11 miners were wounded.…