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ADB approves $32.5 mln to Cambodia for improving health services for migrants

21 October 2022
Khmer Times
Aid and development / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Public health
migrant worker

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved $32.5 million in financing to Cambodia for improving access to quality health services in northwest Banteay Meanchey province, the Manila-based lender said in a statement on Thursday. ...

 Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501172365/adb-approves-32-5-mln-to-cambodia-for-improving-health-services-for-migrants/

Gov’t requests Covid treatment for migrants

Cambodia has requested that Thailand provide medical treatment to Cambodian migrant workers who contract Covid-19 there as large numbers of workers continue to return home from both Thailand and Vietnam, many of whom carry the disease. ...

 Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-requests-covid-treatment-migrants

Military moving over 10,000 migrants

9 August 2021
The Phnom Penh Post
Government / Migration / Pandemics / Public health
Cambodian military / COVID-19 / migrant worker

The military on August 8 started transferring over 10,000 Cambodian migrant workers who have returned from Thailand to quarantine centres in their home provinces in order to free up space in the seven Thai-border provinces for additional returning migrants due to the strain on available ...

 Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/military-moving-over-10000-migrants

Migrant workers stranded on Thai side of border as closure continues

At least 54 of 245 Cambodian migrant workers who returned to Cambodia from Thailand through the Boeung Trakoun border crossing between July 29 and August 4 tested positive for Covid-19, including the highly transmissible Delta variant. ...

 Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/migrant-workers-stranded-thai-side-border-closure-continues

Mekong nations urged to protect migrant workers

1 March 2013
The Nation
Informal migration for labor / Labor / Local workers abroad / Offshore recruitment and employment
ASEAN / Cambodia / Chinese aid / employment contracts / Human Rights / immigration status / INGOs / labour protection laws / labour protections / labour standards / Laos / Mekong Basin / Mekong Migration Network / migrant groups / migrant worker / Myanmar / NGOs / social services / Standard Education Qualifications / Thailand / working conditions / Yunnan Province

The Mekong Migration Network yesterday ended a three-day symposium by urging countries in the Mekong basin to provide migrant workers with sufficient legal protections and to improve their working and living conditions. The network brought together 72 representatives of governments, academic institutions, INGOs, NGOs and migrant ...

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/aec/Mekong-nations-urged-to-protect-migrant-workers-30200972.html

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