Over 200,000 Cambodian migrants leave Thailand as junta rounds up illegal foreign workers

More than 200,000 Cambodian migrant workers have been either deported from or fled Thailand since early this month in the wake of a junta-led clampdown on illegal migrant laborers, Major General Pich Vanna, chief of Cambodia-Thailand Border Relation Affairs Office, said Monday. “As of Monday evening, more than 200,000 Cambodian workers have been repatriated from Thailand,” he told Xinhua over telephone, adding that the figures were collected from all seven border checkpoints along the Cambodia-Thailand border. …

Xinhuanet News Staff
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