Passport fee latest wrinkle in factory workers’ Thai plight
A rights group has raised concerns that up to 100 Cambodian migrant workers at a Thai seafood processing factory will be stranded abroad in less than a week without any income because they cannot afford to pay a passport fee demanded by their employer. Of the 700 Cambodian workers at the Phatthana Seafood factory in Thailand’s Sonkhla province, 20 to 30 per cent were undocumented and unable to pay the 6,500 baht (US$210) fee for passports, a Cambodian Legal Education Center report released on Tuesday states. …
