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Foreign migrant workers in small or medium-sized firms in Korea are earning up to 11 times what they used to make in their own country, a survey released Monday suggests.

Ten migrant workers from Changde, Hunan province, who were lured to Mongolia to work as gold miners returned to Hunan on Sunday, Xinhua News Agency reported.

A petition to save nine North Korean young defectors who were taken from Laos to North Korea on May 27 has gained growing support.

Myanmar migrant workers entering China using temporary boarder passes are being deported for over-staying, according to local immigration officials.

GIFU – Successive closures of plants by large domestic manufacturers as part of operational restructuring have left local governments and civilian groups facing serious problems, among them the increase in unemployed foreign workers.

SEOUL--South Korean President Park Geun-hye warned North Korea on Monday that it would be held responsible for the safety of nine young asylum seekers forcibly repatriated after their capture in Laos.

China has the highest number of top talents moving overseas in the world, News.cn reports

GENEVA -- China is believed to have returned nine young North Korean defectors to their homeland, where they face possible severe punishment or even execution, the United Nations said on Friday.