Asia Pacific Currents

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.An interview with Lionel Bopage, campaign organiser for Australia Asia Worker Links, on thw growing economic and political crisis in Sri Lanka.\Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia.

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.An interview with Casey Thompson from the CFMEU Manufacturing Division, about solidarity for Bangladeshi garment workers, and a memorial service on the 9th anniversary of the collapse of Rana Plaza. Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia.

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.An interview with Yemeni activist and academic Kamilia Al-Eriana, about the current situation in Yemen.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia.

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.An interview with Nic Maclellan, expert on Pacific Area politics, discussing the Security Co-operation agreement between the Solomons and China.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia.

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.An interview with Aran Mylvaganum about Australia's backflip on refugee policy, and whether this is something to celebrate. Aran is the founder of the Tamil Refugee Council, and Victoria Socialist candidate for the Senate.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia.

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.An interview Sopheak Molika, a worker at Nagaworld, with interpreter Tephalin Ou, a unionist in Cambodia. They discuss the ongoing dispute at Nagaworld Casino in Cambodia.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.An interview with Kristine Lawrence from Gabriela Australia about IWD in the Philippines and how women there took, and are taking action for women’s liberation.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.The Anganwadi are pre and post natal workers – the equivalent of Australia’s midwives, early maternal healthcare nurses and early natal healthcare workers. Since the 70s, these workers have been asked to work as volunteers, and in 2017, they fought and won a long hard battle for recognition as workers. Now, 5 years later, they are fighting for increased wages and conditions.On today's show, we interview the President of this workers union is Shivani Kaur, and the only place I could get her was directly on the picketline. The internet connection is not great and there is a lot of background noise. But the story is too important not to broadcast and I ask listeners to persist through the quality in order to hear this important story.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.Our speaker today is Sona Kazemi – a research fellow of Migration Studies, Disability Studies, and Medical Humanities at the Ohio State University. Sona researches the living conditions of people who become injured/disabled as a result of wars, incarceration, torture, gendered violence, punitive limb amputation, genocide, and political instability in the Middle East, namely Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraqi-, and Syrian Kurdistan. Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia