A 41-year-old man took the 11-year-old daughter of an impoverished employee as his third wife. Che Abdul Karim, the self-proclaimed imam of Kampung Lalang village in Kuala Betis, Malaysia, reportedly travelled to the border town of Sungai Golok in southern Thailand to wed the child last month. The girl’s cash-strapped Thai parents are rubber tappers …
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Malaysian labour rights groups have called for an investigation into the world’s largest glovemaker, Top Glove, after cases were uncovered of migrant workers toiling for long hours and working illegal overtime to pay off huge debts. The Thomson Reuters Foundation revealed on Thursday that migrant workers at the Malaysian firm often work long hours to …
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