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Bangkok Post
02-07-2025
- Bangkok Post
Unpaid Thais flee Cambodia across rooftops into Thailand
SA KAEO — Ten Thais who claimed they were being forced to work without pay in Phnom Penh fled across a border rooftop into Thailand on Wednesday morning. The Thai army's Burapa Task Force reported their illegal return on its Facebook page. It said paramilitary rangers spotted the 10 Thais on a rooftop near the Ban Khlong Luek border checkpoint in Aranyaprathet district early Wednesday morning. According to the tearful Thai returnees, they had accepted offers of construction jobs in Phnom Penh at a daily wage of 300 baht. After working there for a month, they had still not been paid. Therefore, they decided to leave and return to Thailand. According to them, their employer took them to Poipet, where a trafficker demanded 3,000 baht to take them back across the border. They did not have the money but were desperate to return home, so they found their own way back across the rooftops. All 10 were taken to Khlong Luek police station for legal processing and would receive assistance, police said. The returnees did not explain why they accepted jobs in Cambodia that paid less than the same, available work in Thailand. Thai media reports suggested they were in truth fleeing a scam-call centre.
Bangkok Post
02-07-2025
- Bangkok Post
Unpaid Thais flee Cambodia across rooftops into Thaiand
SA KAEO - Ten Thais who claimed they were being forced to work without pay in Phnom Penh fled across a border rooftop into Thailand on Wednesday morning The army's Burapa Task Force reported their illegal return on its Facebook page. It said paramilitary rangers spotted the 10 Thais on a rooftop near the Ban Khlong Luek border checkpoint in Aranyaprathet district early Wednesday morning. According to the tearful Thai returnees, they had acepted offers of construction jobs in Phnom Penh at a daily wage of 300 baht. After working there for a month, they had still not been paid. Therefore, they decided to leave and return to Thailand. According to them, their employer had taken them to Poipet where a trafficker demanded 3,000 baht to take them back across the border. They did not have the money but were desperate to return home, so found their own way back across the rooftops. All 10 were taken to Khlong Luek police station for legal processing, and would receive assistance, police said. The returnees did not explain why they accepted jobs in Cambodia that paid less than the same, available work in Thailand. Thai media reports suggested they were in truth fleeing a scam-call centre.
Bangkok Post
29-06-2025
- Bangkok Post
Thailand relaxes some Cambodian border controls to help stranded people, vehicles
The Burapa Task Force, which supervises border areas with Cambodia in Sa Kaeo province, has relaxed its border controls to help repatriate stranded Cambodians and vehicles from both Thailand and Cambodia. Maj Gen Benchapol Dechatiwong na Ayutthaya, commander of the task force, on Sunday signed two orders to provide temporary leniency as the army has sealed the Thai-Cambodian border, except for humanitarian reasons, amid bilateral tensions started by the Cambodian side in April. According to the orders, which took immediate effect, stranded cargo trucks can return to their homelands through three border checkpoints in the next seven days under strict limitations. The crossings by stranded cargo trucks are limited to 50 trucks a day for either inbound or outbound travel through the Ban Khao Din and Ban Nong Ian-Stung Bot checkpoints, and only between 8am and 4pm. At the Bang Nong Prue border checkpoint, the number of cargo trucks is limited to 20 a day for either inbound or outbound travel, and only between 8am and noon. The relaxation applies to cargo trucks whose journeys were registered with the Thai Customs Department before June 25. Cargo trucks that earlier left for Cambodia must return to Thailand without cargo. The task force commander also extended permitted stays for Cambodians who had border passes and temporary work permits which lasted for seven and 15 days respectively. However, the order did not cover those whose stays expired before June 23.
