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City Crippled by floods, commuters stranded

the ILO’s Global Wage Report 2014/15.

The Asia and Pacific Supplement looks at the region in more detail. It includes special sections on Asia’s garment sector, China’s private enterprises, Thailand’s manufacturing sector, India’s rural workers and the Pacific Island countries.

Heavy rain across the Greater Jakarta area, which started late on Sunday and lasted well into Monday afternoon, have inundated at least 2,600 homes

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Our panel of experts took questions on tackling waste in the fashion industry. From revamped supply chains to recycling jeans and rethinking dyes, here’s what we discovered. Matthew Jenkin reports

Hoeun Chann's life after one year shooting- Mr Hoeun Chann was shot during the protest of SL Garment factory in 12 November 2013. Click here to know more about his story.

Indonesia raised subsidized fuel prices by an average 33.6 percent as it seeks to shift subsidy spending to productive sectors.

The Manpower Ministry will open a call center to accommodate public complaints regarding employment issues, in what the ministry calls a “priority ...

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Almost all of the country’s leather production, 80 percent, is exported. As with Bangladesh’s notorious ready-made garment industry, there’s a huge local cost. According to the government, an estimated 22,000 cubic meters of environmentally hazardous liquid waste, including hexavalent chromium, is dumped daily into the Buriganga River, Dhaka’s main waterway. Skin and respiratory ailments are common among Hazaribagh’s 160,000-plus residents. A November 2013 report by the New York-based Blacksmith Institute ranked the neighborhood among the 10 most polluted places on earth. “Once you are inside Hazaribagh, you are in a chamber of pollutants,” says vPhilip Gain, director of the Society for Environment and Human Development (SEHD), a Dhaka-based nonprofit.

Morgan Stanley, the most-accurate forecaster of the Indonesian rupiah in the past year, expects the currency to extend its three-month slide as incoming president Joko Widodo struggles to gain parliamentary support.

Indonesians took on their social media accounts to welcome the country's seventh president, Joko Widodo, who was inaugurated on Monday.