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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.
