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Members of the Asean committee on the implementation of the Asean declaration on the protection and promotion of the rights of migrant workers meet in Indonesia. —ASEAN.ORG PHOTO
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April 25, 2026April 25, 2026Economy

The mirage behind Asean’s vision of free labor flows 

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When the Asean Economic Community was officially launched in 2015, the rhetoric was intoxicating. A single market and production base. The free flow of skilled labor. A region where a Filipino engineer could compete on equal footing with a Singaporean counterpart, where a Filipino nurse could work in a hospital in Kuala Lumpur or Bangkok...

The way forward from the dire crises in Myanmar
Myanmar's Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh —PHOTO FROM UNCHR
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November 8, 2022September 18, 2023World

The way forward from the dire crises in Myanmar

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Editor’s note: This is the address delivered by Dr. Cynthia Maung at the 2022 Asean Civil Society Conference/Asean Peoples’ Forum held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, last Nov. 3-5. The author is a Karen medical doctor and founder of Mae Tao Clinic at the Myanmar-Thailand border, which has been providing free healthcare services for internally displaced...