‘Escaping hell’: Myanmar scam centre workers plead to go home
By AFP and published by CNA Myawaddy – Hundreds of exhausted young men lie in an open-sided detention centre in a seedy Myanmar border town, sweating through thick tropical heat by day and prey to clouds of mosquitoes by night. They are among some 7,000 people from more than two dozen countries released from […]
Read MoreKaren leader arrests 2 call-centre gang leaders
KAREN Border Guard Force (BGF) leader Saw Chit Thu has arrested two Chinese bosses of call-centre operations in Myawaddy township, just across the border from Mae Sot town, with the pair being among seven wanted by China, TV Channel 7 said late afternoon today (Feb. 19). The Karen leader, who is himself being investigated […]
Read MoreOnly 1% of returning scam centre workers are victims: Police
A SENIOR police officer said only 1% of workers at scam hubs in neighbouring countries were lured by the gangsters with the rest having willingly joined their transnational criminal bosses in scamming victims worldwide, Thai Rath newspaper said today (Feb. 13). Pol. Gen. Thatchai Pitaneelabut, head of the Centre for the Protection of Children, […]
Read MoreUS aid freeze sets back fight against human trafficking in Cambodia
By AP and published by Yahoo!News US President Donald Trump’s freeze on foreign assistance has dealt a blow to organisations fighting human trafficking and forced labour in Cambodia, where tens of thousands of people are held captive and forced to work in call centres running telephone scams. Hundreds of thousands of people work in […]
Read MoreUnions file complaints over Myanmar garment production
By AFP and published by CNA Geneva – A global union announced yesterday (Nov. 13) that it had filed complaints against three major clothing brands – Next, New Yorker and LPP – over their alleged continued sourcing of garments from junta-run Myanmar. The Switzerland-based IndustriALL Global Union said that it and the two banned […]
Read MoreHouse official opposes arming Thai workers in Israel for self-defence
By Thai Rath and AP – published by Yahoo!News AMID calls by academics that the Thai government ask the Israeli government to arm Thai workers for self-defence, secretary to House Speaker Mr. Muk Sulaiman said he strongly opposed this move as it could cause serious damage, Thai Rath newspaper said last evening (Oct. 18). […]
Read MoreTunnel search ends with all three workers found dead
ALL three workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel, which is part of the Bangkok-Nakhon Ratchasima section of the Sino-Thai high speed train project, died there with the bodies of the two Chinese workers found today (Aug. 30) after their Myanmar colleague’s body was brought out yesterday and have been taken for autopsy, TV Channel […]
Read MoreRace to rescue three workers trapped in collapsed tunnel
THE construction company building a tunnel in the Bangkok-Nakhon Ratchasima section of the Sino-Thai high speed train project that collapsed late Saturday night (Aug. 23) trapping three workers has not lost hope of rescuing them and is still removing debris to reach them, TV Channel 7 said late last night (Aug. 25). This tunnel […]
Read MoreMyanmar workers protest over unpaid wages
OVER 700 Myanmar workers staged a protest in front of a factory they are constructing within Rojana Industrial Park Prachinburi after Chinese capitalists had not paid their wages for two months while forcing them to work everyday, Amarin TV said today (Aug. 17). Police at Ro Bo Pai station, Si Maha Phot district, were […]
Read MoreProtesting Myanmar workers settle for 1.6m baht per death
AROUND 500 Myanmar construction workers protesting at a factory construction site in Rayong where seven of their colleagues were killed and many others injured after a tower crane collapsed with rescuers blocked from going in to help the injured and take the bodies for autopsy reached an agreement with the employer for compensation of […]
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