Raid on house finds 84 workers

9 July 2014
The Phnom Penh Post
Civil society / Economy and commerce / Government / Human rights / Informal labor / Informal migration for labor / International relations / Labor / Local workers abroad / Ministries and other national bodies / Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation / Offshore recruitment and employment / Social development
An Bunhak / Koy Kuong / Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Thailand / Top Manpower

Before dawn yesterday, Thai military officials raided a house not far from the border, finding dozens of undocumented Cambodian workers crammed into a room awaiting transportation deeper into the country. The 84 workers were woken, taken into military custody and deported, but the brokers who had smuggled them into the country were nowhere to be found, according to Koy Kuong, spokesman for Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. …

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