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Since January last year vast numbers of Bangladeshi migrants have travelled to Malaysia to fill legitimate government-issued job quotas. But on arrival many found the work non-existent and were dumped into unemployment and debt, or duped into illegal and poorly paid jobs which activists say amounted to large-scale human trafficking.
The new law defines marriage in gender-neutral terms instead of referring only to “men” and “women” and accords same-sex couples rights over inheritance, hospital consent, property management and adoption previously denied to them.
Thailand faces fresh political instability with a flurry of potentially decisive court cases driven by conservative powers seeking to banish the radical opposition and undermine the government – perhaps fatally – in the same time frame.
The pro-democracy Move Forward Party stunned the Thai establishment in last year’s polls by winning 14 million votes and 151 parliamentary seats.
Two years after Thailand decriminalised cannabis in a giddy plume of publicity, businesses and free weed advocates say their dreams are about to go up in smoke, with the government poised to reclassify the plant as a narcotic by year-end.
The director of a Thai film which has audiences across Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia reaching for the tissue boxes with its tear-jerking relationship study of an ailing grandmother and her grandson says he is grateful for the viral social media response which shows his film is “resonating” across the region.
The May 31 hard deadline was announced after tens of thousands of Bangladeshi migrant workers fell victim to an elaborate labour scam in Malaysia, each paying up to US $5,000 upfront for jobs that did not exist once they arrived in the country.
The 74-year-old billionaire, the nation’s most influential politician over the last two decades, faces the kingdom’s tough lese-majeste law, which shields the powerful monarchy from criticism, over an allegation that he defamed the monarchy in an interview with South Korean media in 2015 while in self-exile.