Caram Asia is deeply vexed with recent announcements made by the Malaysian government and Thai provincial governments proposing measures to limit movement of foreign workers within the compound of their employers...[T]he governor of Chiang Mai...[set up a] rule [that] will ban foreign workers from riding motorcycles or leaving their designated working areas...after 8pm...In February 2007, Malaysia’s Home Ministry proposed that all foreign workers be confined to their kongsi (work areas) and have their movements monitored by the management to prevent them from committing crimes...The security reason cited for such plans to restrict foreign workers is a mirror of discrimination against foreign workers.