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KATHMANDU: The Nepali Embassy in Riyadh, has issued 35,000 travel documents to illegal migrant workers since Saudi Arabia announced amnesty on April 5.

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.

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said on Monday some P340 million worth of loans have been granted to 670 mostly distressed returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to help them set up small businesses and prevent them from accepting risky jobs abroad.

Money sent in by overseas Filipino workers (OFW) reached $6.9 billion as of end-April, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said on Monday.

In the wake of attacks on Burmese migrants in Malaysia, 167 Burmese nationals returned to Burma from Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, Eleven News reported.

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.

The National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) is calling on the government to ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on decent work for domestic workers as the majority of migrant workers abroad are females in the domestic sector.

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz has acknowledged before a leaders’ meeting at the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva that the country’s robust economic growth, highlighted by the 7.8-percent expansion of gross domesti