NIA re-designates runaway migrant workers as "unaccounted for"

National Immigration Agency (NIA) Director-General Jeff J. Yang (楊家駿) announced Tuesday that in future whenever foreign workers' whereabouts are unknown after leaving their official place of employment, his agency will no longer refer to them as "illegal runaways" but rather classify them as "unaccounted for."

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