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Randy Mulyanto

‘We love Taiwan’: Domestic workers hope for more from new President Lai

Indonesian domestic workers with the elderly people in their care [File: David Chang/EPA]

Taipei, Taiwan – As Taiwan’s President William Lai Ching-te begins his four-year term, the democratic island’s legions of Southeast Asian migrant domestic workers are hoping he will push ahead with labour reforms that might improve their working lives.

According to Taiwan’s Ministry of Labour, there were more than 760,000 foreign workers on the island as of the end of March, most of them from Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam.

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