workers rights



STORY OF THE DAY • Apr 08, 2023 • 2 min read

Editorial The Anakut Podcast is back

By Beatrice Siviero • Apr 08, 2023
New Globe's podcast goes live while Malaysia votes to repeal mandatory death penalty. Meanwhile, Myanmar garment workers call for better labour conditions, and Vietnam's car industry expands globally.

STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 11, 2023 • 3 min read

Editorial Risky adoptions and palm oil tensions

By Beatrice Siviero • Feb 11, 2023
Cambodia is close to resuming controversial intercountry adoption with Italy, Vietnam manufacturing layoffs reach the U.S., Indonesian small palm oil businesses strive for economic survival, communities fight for their urban housing rights in the Philippines.

Apr 12, 2022 • 8 min read
Workers' rights

Malaysia wage movement gathers momentum

Fueled by the pandemic, workers from young lawyers to hospital cleaners have sought greater employment rights and pay increases
By Ashley Yeong • Apr 12, 2022

Oct 05, 2021 • 6 min read
Workers' rights

Bus driver turned activist empowers Singapore workers

Chua Qwong Meng brushes off his importance. But a lawsuit with fellow drivers and volunteer efforts for others have made him a champion in the struggle for Singapore workers’ rights
By Weilee Yap • Oct 05, 2021

Sep 09, 2021 • 11 min read
Workers' rights

Singapore’s home cleaning scheme offers better life for maids

Demand for part-time home cleaning is up in Singapore amid Covid-triggered shortages of full-time household help. A newly-formalised scheme gives the country’s migrant cleaners better working conditions, but experts say the impact so far is limited
By Rachel Genevieve Chia • Sep 09, 2021

Apr 26, 2021 • 10 min read
Covid-19

‘The poor won’t survive’: Lockdown hits Phnom Penh’s hand-to-mouth workers

Cambodia had avoided the worst health effects of the pandemic until recent months. Now, with Phnom Penh under an ever-stricter lockdown as cases spiral, it's the capital's thousands of informal, hand-to-mouth workers who are suffering as they are locked inside
By Andrew Haffner and and Borin Sopheavuthtey • Apr 26, 2021

Mar 10, 2021 • 8 min read
Migrant rights

The photography project empowering Rohingya refugees to tell their stories

Rohingya living in refugee camps in Bangladesh are deprived of basic services, most importantly their right to work and become self-sufficient. But through an ongoing photography and storytelling project, one documentary filmmaker is hoping to change that
By Kiana Duncan • Mar 10, 2021

Feb 11, 2021 • 7 min read
Opinion

J&T protest reveals Malaysians’ lack of empathy for low-wage workers

Despite J&T workers apologising for throwing packages around, the public’s condemning reaction in Malaysia has demonstrated a lack of empathy for low-wage workers in the face of economic hardship, the pandemic and low-wage exploitation
By Huei Ting Cheong • Feb 11, 2021

Nov 05, 2020 • 3 min read
Podcast

The Anakut podcast: Leapfrogging and the future of work in Cambodia

In episode five, we talk leapfrogging. Not the children’s game, but the idea that developing states can skip old tech to get up to speed with the latest and greatest. To learn more, we spoke to Kem Bora of investment group Mekong Strategic Partners, and Manu Rajan, CEO of digital money transfer service Wing
By Andrew Haffner • Nov 05, 2020