In response to widespread reports saying that Burmese migrants may join the anti-government rally in Thailand, Chiangmai based Shan workers organizations said that they have a strict policy not to intervene in their host country’s internal affairs because they are only “guest residents”.

Computers, mobile phones, TVs and cameras - electronic gadgets ease our everyday life and most cannot imagine them gone. Thailand is the largest exporter of hard drives in the world and China accounts for around 25% of global electronics production. Electronics defines the lives of millions of people in these countries.

Women workers at a garment factory in Hainan, southern China, began a strike on Wednesday 11 November to press their demands on pay and vacations after management announced drastic cuts in bonuses. Around 3,000 workers at the Hainan Youmei Underwear Co., Ltd in Haikou City, the provincial capital, gathered outside the plant. The factory is wholly owned by German-Swiss lingerie giant Triumph International, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of women’s underwear.

 The Chairman of the Knesset's Committee of Inquiry on the Problem of Foreign Workers, Yaakov Katz (Ketzaleh) of the National Union, said Sunday that he fully supports the struggle of the agriculturalists of the South for more permits to employ foreign workers.