BEIJING — At 53, Guan Junling is too old to get hired at factories anymore. But for migrant workers like her, not working is not an option. For decades, they have come from farming villages to find work in the cities. Toiling in sweatshops and building apartment complexes they could never afford to live in, … Read more
BEIJING — One burning issue dominates as the 2024 session of China’s legislature gets underway this week: the economy. The National People’s Congress annual meeting, which opens Tuesday, is being closely watched for any signals on what the ruling Communist Party might do to reenergize an economy that is sagging under the weight of expanded … Read more
BANGKOK — Thwel, a 25-year-old schoolteacher, saw very few options left to her after Myanmar’s military announced it is implementing conscription to fill its ranks. “As a person living in this country, I only have two options: to go abroad illegally or die here,” Thwel told The Associated Press by phone while traveling to a … Read more
Four migrants have died yards from shore in southern Spain after being forced out of the boat they were traveling in ByCIARÁN GILES Associated Press and HERNÁN MUÑOZ Associated Press November 30, 2023, 7:11 AM MADRID — Four migrants have died meters (yards) from shore in southern Spain after being forced out of the boat … Read more
UTTARKASHI, India — Forty-one construction workers emerged dazed and smiling late Tuesday from a collapsed tunnel where they had been stranded the last 17 days — a happy ending to an ordeal that had gripped India and involved a massive rescue operation that overcame several setbacks. Locals, relatives and government officials erupted in joy, set … Read more
NEW DELHI — The rescue mission was expected to last only a few days. Instead, it took 17 days to reach 41 construction workers who were trapped when a landslide collapsed a mountain tunnel in northern India earlier this month. The excruciating wait finally ended at nightfall on Tuesday, as temperatures dropped near the accident … Read more
NEW DELHI — Authorities in India said on Monday they were set to begin manual digging of what they hoped was the final phase of rescuing the 41 construction workers trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel in the country’s north for over two weeks. Rescuers have started to drill vertically — an alternate plan to … Read more
NEW DELHI — Attempts to reach 41 construction workers stuck in a collapsed tunnel in northern India for two weeks were again stymied Saturday. Rescuers had been working by hand to remove debris after the drilling machine they were using broke down a day earlier while making its way through the debris of rock, stones … Read more
LUCKNOW, India — Some of the 40 construction workers trapped in a collapsed road tunnel for a fourth day were sick as falling debris and technical glitches delayed the work to free them, officials in northern India said Wednesday. Wide pipes are set to be drilled through excavated rubble to create a passage to free … Read more
Greece’s minister for migration says the government is planning a major regularization program for migrants to meet pressing demands in the labor market despite a recent increase in illegal arrivals ByThe Associated Press September 26, 2023, 8:29 AM Migrants sit outside an ambulance after a rescue operation by a Greek coast vessel, at the port … Read more