Phuket home to more than 70,000 migrant workers

By The Phuket News

 

Confirmation of the number of migrant workers living and working in Phuket came at a conference held to remind employers to register their migrant workers. Photo: PR Dept

 

PHUKET:-- A total of 10,609 employers or other organisations in Phuket hire migrant workers from neighboring countries, the Chief of the Phuket Provincial Employment Office (PPEO) has confirmed.
 

Speaking at a recent conference in Phuket Town targetting employers who hire migrant workers, PPEO Chief Kattiya Pandech explained that the Phuket is currently home to 70,986 migrant workers, comprising 68,812 Myanmar nationals, 1,133 Laotians, 970 Cambodians and 71 Vietnamese.

 

Of those, 62,011 workers were registered through his office and the remaining 8,975 had been legally permitted to work in the country through the international Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) system set up between Thailand and neighbouring countries, he added.

Full Story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-home-to-more-than-70-000-migrant-workers-72649.php#eIgcvEz1UHMYQBLK.97

 

-- © Copyright Phuket News 2019-08-27

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Another 10,000 TM 30's to find. LOL.

That's an awful lot of TM30's.   ????

71 vietnamese only? There gotta be more than 71 of them in patong alone.

70,986 migrant workers, that are legally registered here... 

all these numbers of the Phuket population are totally nonsense anyway.

 

More than 80% of all Thais who live here aren`t registered in Phuket but in there hometowns all over Thailand, because they don`t own property here. How would they find a criminal in Phuket if they don`t even know he lives here. But sure let the stupid farangs do the TM30 <deleted> for safety reasons..