Thai Immigration Officials Exploit Flood Victims

26 October 2011 

Hundreds of Burmese migrant workers fleeing a flood disaster in Bangkok have been 

detained or forced to pay bribes to Thai immigration officials in Mae Sot or on their 

way to the Burmese border.

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Thai police nab migrant flood victims

26 October 2011

Burmese migrants escaping flood-hit areas of Thailand are being arrested by Thai police 

as they near the Burmese border on charges of travelling outside of their permitted zones, 

several have reported.

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2011 Oct 26 FTUB Welcomes the Registration Efforts of the AFFM _Eng

2011 Oct 14 Statement on Release of FTUB Members _Eng

Gov’t must put new Labour Organization Law into practice: opposition

Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:05 Myo Thant
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – The Federation of Trade Unions-Burma (FTUB) has welcomed
a new Labour Organization Law giving workers the right to strike and negotiate
with owners, but the government must put the law into practice, FTUB Joint Secretary
Dr. Zaw Win Aung said on Wednesday.

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1997 March 268th Session Commission of Inquiry on Con 29 _ Forced Labor _ Formed at ILO

2011 June _ILO_ Discussion and Conclusions Freedom of Association _FOA

2011 September 7 Even IMF Supported Financial Restructuring Cannot Help Burma Out of Debt Due to Self Creat...

2011 Oct 06 FTUB Suggests That the Myitsone Area Be Designated as National Park - All Must Be Ready for Int...

2011 September 30 U Maung Maung Interview With RFA on FTUB Statement

2011 September 30 FTUB Statement on U Thein Sein Government Labour Organization Law

2010 Sept 27 Loans and Business From China, International Will Not Be Endorsed Eng Version

2011 (ILO) Discussion and Conclusions Freedom of Association (FOA)

2011 September 19 --- Not Yet Time for Reinstatement of GSPs

2011 September 19 --- Not Yet Time for Reinstatement of GSP

Recent worker registration gives workers more confidence, security

Wednesday, 20 July 2011
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Thailand currently has more than 1.45 million legal Burmese migrant workers, but an estimated 500,000 illegal Burmese workers did not register for work permits in the recent round that has just concluded, according to experts.

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2011 August 18 FTUB Statement on U Thein Sein Speech of 17th August 2011

2011 August 16 Draft - Statmnt Supporting the Pegu Commander and All Security for the Trip and Calling for ...

2011 Aug 4 FTUB Statement Spprting DawAungSanSuuKyi Initiative for Dialogue Towards Peace and End to Civil ...

2011 July 18 Statement on Financial Crisis and Call for a Coordinated Push

Villagers Complain of Shwe Gas's Waste to CM

29 June 2011 11:34
Kyauk Pru: Local villagers from Waksan Village under Ohndaw Group in Kyaukpru Township in western Burma's Arakan State have lodged a written complaint with the state's chief minister about excrement and rubbish from workers on the Shwe Gas Project being dumped into the creek near their village.

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Twenty defiant families still staying in Myitsone village

Despite mounting pressure from the Burmese authorities, 20 families are still in Tanghpre village at the Myitsone hydro electric power project, where most villagers from around the project area have been forced to relocate to the new village called Aung Min Tar since 2010.
“They do not have a choice because there are no more houses or place for them in the new village, which is overcrowded,” said a source close to the villagers.

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Farmers' Loan Scheme Rife With Bribery

Wednesday, June 29, 2011
The Voice Weekly online, a news journal in Burma, reported in its June 16 issue that President Thein Sein has established model farms for agriculture and animal husbandry, and has, in fact, been conducting his own research by tilling the soil by hand.
"Even though he is a president, he worked on the farm," The Voice quoted Thein Aung, the Prime Minister of Irrawaddy Region, as saying at a ceremony. "Based on his findings, he laid down guidelines on how to improve the farmers' situation."

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Wounded Migrants Call for Compensation

Thursday, June 30, 2011 

Two Burmese migrants were shot by Thai forestry officials in Sangkhalaburi almost a month ago, but no perpetrator has been arrested. One man is still in hospital recovering from surgery to his leg. The other has been discharged, but still has a bullet in his chest.
The two victims, Nai Blai, 40, from Ye Township in Mon State, and Khin Maung Lwin, 41, from Thaton District, have been living as migrant workers in Baan Mai in the suburbs of the Thai border town of Sangkhalaburi. They were allegedly shot by Thai rangers while chopping wood in a nearby forest on June 3.

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Migrants saved from Thai ransom round-about

Published: 30 June 2011

Three Burmese migrant workers who were held for ransom by human traffickers after being sold on to them by two Thai policemen were rescued by police from the same station in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok yesterday afternoon.

The three; Byauk Owe, 18, Ko Kyaw, 30 and Maung Owe, 19, who worked at a canned fish factory in Bang Bon district, were arrested by two policemen while having stroll on Sunday evening. They were taken to the police station where they were asked to show identification.

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Migrants killed in Thai road accident

Published: 24 June 2011
Four Burmese migrant workers and a Thai national were killed and nine injured in southern Thailand yesterday when a van they were travelling in collided with a 10-wheel truck.
The accident took place in Prachuap Khiri Khan province as the overloaded van carrying 13 passengers made its way from Ranong, on the border with Burma, to Ban Saphan town.
An official at Bang Saphan hospital told DVB that four Burmese and the driver, a Thai national, were killed while nine were sent to the hospital with injuries, a number of which have since left.

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