Burmese Woman’s Heartbreaking Discovery Amid Bangkok Building Collapse

[snoop1130]

Photo via Channel 8

 

In a harrowing journey spanning four days, a Burmese woman named May walked from Myanmar to Bangkok, seeking her missing husband and son after the collapse of a government building, only to uncover her husband’s secret life with a Thai mistress.

 

May arrived in Bangkok on April 8, to trace bodies and survivors at the Office of the Auditor General of Thailand, which collapsed following Myanmar’s earthquake on March 28. Her husband Ji Tan and son Kyaw Tat were trapped inside, while her daughter managed to escape.

 

May’s journey began on March 30, leaving her elderly mother and daughter behind. Traveling on foot through forests and mountains with a guide, she reached the Thai-Myanmar border, paying 12,500 baht to enter Thailand.

 

 

 

Upon arrival, May was to undergo a DNA test to claim her family’s remains, yet was devastated to learn another woman, Whee, had already tested with Ji Tan’s daughter, claiming to be his wife. Whee, speaking to Channel 8, confirmed a decade-long relationship with Ji Tan, living with him and his children, unaware of May.

 

Despite providing financial support and job opportunities to Ji Tan and his children, Whee felt sidelined upon May's arrival. She offered May the rights to claim Ji Tan and Kyaw Tat’s bodies, but compensation matters remain unresolved—officials indicated Ji Tan's compensation would go to his daughter and Kyaw Tat's to May.

 

May, stunned by her husband’s duplicity, expressed that she never suspected infidelity, having received monthly support from Ji Tan. This poignant family saga underscores the personal tragedies intertwined with the building collapse, highlighting complex issues of identity and kinship against a backdrop of disaster and loss, reported The Thaiger.

 

-- 2025-04-09

 

 

[steven100]

happens all the time here in Thailand,   why would anyone be surprised.  

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[BangkokReady]

How much do Burmese labourers get paid that they can have a wife back home and a wife in Thailand, both with children?

[Moonlover]

1 hour ago, BangkokReady said:

How much do Burmese labourers get paid that they can have a wife back home and a wife in Thailand, both with children?

Obviously enough.

[Liverpool Lou]

1 hour ago, BangkokReady said:

How much do Burmese labourers get paid that they can have a wife back home and a wife in Thailand, both with children?

Enough to have a wife back home and a wife in Thailand, both with children.  Perhaps his Thai bit on the side, she wasn't his wife, worked also and has an income...

"Despite providing financial support and job opportunities to Ji Tan and his children..."

[Liverpool Lou]

3 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

...May walked from Myanmar to Bangkok...

Highly unlikely.

[steven100]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

a Burmese woman named May walked from Myanmar to Bangkok

 

I doubt this is true ....  don't believe anything in Thailand unless you see it happen with your own eyes.