Silwanus Tangkotta was working aboard a Taiwanese fishing boat in the remote Pacific last year, when a heavy wave slammed a ...

Wage theft is one of the most widespread problems faced by migrant fishermen, said Achmad Mudzakir, a fisherman who serves as the leader of FOSPI, a Taiwan-based NGO that supports other crew members.

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TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A group of migrant workers and activists gathered on Monday (Feb. 20) outside Taiwan’s Executive Yuan to protest what they call discriminatory entry restrictions that apply only ...

Providing stronger worker protections to migrants from Southeast Asia, as well as potential paths to permanent settlement, would not only help abate the myriad of issues that come with an older ...

The Migrant Worker Service Center of Hsinchu diocese joined the Migrants Empowerment Network at the main railway station in the national capital Taipei on Oct. 29 urging the government to make reforms ...

“Most migrant workers in Taiwan have the risk of forced labour and human trafficking,” Lennon said. In 2023, Walk Free, an NGO dedicated to the eradication of slavery, estimated some 40,000 ...

Taiwan, a major semiconductor producer but with an ageing society, is host to around 700,000 migrant workers who come mostly from Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, many of whom ...