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The first asylum-seeker boats of 2012 have arrived in Australia as Indonesia conceded that its plan to ease visa rules could trigger more people smuggling activity.

The Philippines government has appealed to more than 4,000 Filipinos in Syria to return home amid reports of escalating violence there.

SINGAPORE (Kyodo) -- Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Saturday that Singapore's economy expanded by 4.8 percent in 2011.

PETALING JAYA, Jan 2 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) today called on the government to review its recent decision to allow foreigners to work in sectors where locals were already employed.

Qatar has proposed preparing a unified format of employment contract for foreign domestic helps across the six Gulf nations, that heavily import workers from foreign countries like India.

MANILA, Philippines — Efforts to repatriate Filipino migrant workers caught in the middle of a revolutionary wave of anti-government unrest that swept the Middle East and West Africa occupied much of the Department of Foreign Affairs' (DFA) attention last year.

The Union Cabinet is likely to take up tomorrow a proposal to set up a fund which will be used to offer insurance cover and pension benefits to overseas Indian workers on their return to the country.

By Joseph Yeh--The Ministry of Foreign Affairs' (MOFA) recently-announced visa application requirement for some applicants from four Southeast Asian countries is a form of discriminatory and a serious violation of human rights, a local nongovernmental organization said yesterday.