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Nine Taiwanese have been indicted on charges related to the forced labor and abuse of migrant workers on a distant-water fishing vessel, the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors’ Office said on Wednesday. The foreign crew of the Vanuata-flagged Da Wang (大旺), owned and operated by Kaohsiung-based Yong Feng Fishery (永豐國際生物科技公司), were subject to beatings, insults, confinement, and threats to withhold or deduct wages while working in the Pacific Ocean in 2019 and 2020, prosecutor...

Taipei, April 20 (CNA) Nine Taiwanese have been indicted on charges relating to the forced labor and physical abuse of foreign crew members on an offshore fishing vessel, the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office said on Wednesday.

Taipei, April 9 (CNA) Global environmental campaigning network Greenpeace held a rally in front of the Fisheries Agency in downtown Taipei on Friday to demand better pay and labor conditions for distant seas migrant fishermen working on Taiwan-owned boats.

Greenpeace on Friday called for better pay and working conditions for distant-water migrant fishers in a rally outside the Fisheries Agency’s building in Taipei. Supporters at the event laid white flowers on top of a makeshift coffin next to a replica boat cabin painted with the letters “SOS.” Yuton Lee (李于彤), oceans campaigner from Greenpeace East Asia’s Taipei Office, said that migrant workers on Taiwanese-owned distant-water fishing vessels do not receive the same pay as coastal...

On Friday, January 28, 2022, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) issued a Withhold Release Order (“WRO”) on disposable gloves produced in Malaysia by TY Industry Holdings Sdn Bhd...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is continuing its crackdown on forced labor in certain Pacific hi...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is continuing its crackdown on forced labor in certain Pacific hi...

Washington, Jan. 28 (CNA) The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Friday determined a Taiwanese fishing vessel flying a flag of convenience (FOC) had used forced labor in its operations, and the agency will seize its seafood catch.

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Friday took action against three companies accused of forced labor practices. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued a Withhold Release Order and tw...

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized the catch of a Taiwanese fishing vessel that was flying a “flag of convenience” and using forced labor, the agency said on Friday. The CBP said in a statement that the Vanuatu-flagged vessel Da Wang (大旺) is owned and operated by the Taiwanese firm Yong Feng Fishery. The company is one of two recently found by the CBP suspected of using forced labor. The other is a Malaysian company, Sime Darby Plantation Berhad (Sime Darby), whose palm oil an...