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Asia’s migrant workers sent approximately $260 billion to their families in 2012, but high fees and limited financial services outside of urban areas are reducing the benefits of those remittances for millions of rural residents, according to a new report.

MANILA, Philippines—Malacañang has formed a team from the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (Meco) in Taipei to ensure protection for Filipino workers in Taiwan after reports of harassment and attacks by Taiwanese angry over the fatal shooting of one of their fishermen by Philippine coast guards last week.

Amid efforts to resolve an escalating row with Taiwan over the death of a fisherman, the Philippine government has promised to extend assistance to Filipino workers in Taiwan who may be harassed or attacked.

Sixty-one Bangladeshis, who were in Sri Lankan detention camps for four months after being picked up by that country’s navy in February, were scheduled to be brought back from Colombo around Sunday noon.

MANILA, Philippines – Fifteen overseas Filipino workers (OFW) stranded in Saudi Arabia have finally come home.

Tough new law puts mainland Australia and its legal system out of bounds for boat-people

Promising to engage with trade unions on their demands, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today urged them, as well as the industry, to focus on discussions for the welfare of migrant and domestic workers working in unsafe conditions.

Dozens of migrant domestic workers are being trafficked over the Lebanese border into Syria every month, despite the war raging there and official bans by Syria and several major source countries against bringing in new labor, officials from the Indonesian and Philippine embassies said Friday.