Drop in Cambodian workers passing through the Chong Jom - O’Smach checkpoints

[Lite Beer]

Drop in Cambodian workers passing through the Chong Jom - O’Smach checkpoints

SURIN, 21 June 2014 (NNT) – There has been a decrease in the number of Cambodian workers traveling home since last week's exodus of workers left from Thailand. Now, some of the workers have come back to Thailand.

As of June 21, 11,000 Cambodian workers had travelled through Thailand's Chong Jom and Cambodia's O’Smach checkpoints, according to a Cambodian official at the O’Smach checkpoint, as there was a rumor about a worker crackdown in Thailand. However, on June 19, only 316 Cambodian nationals travelled home – a drop off from the peak of departing Cambodians in one day, which was 2,000.

Most of these workers are construction laborers who may stay in Cambodia to cultivate the rice crops during the rainy season and then to return to Thailand.

Thai officials at the Kap Choeng checkpoint in Surin province have set up a service point to facilitate Cambodian workers with legal documents to travel back to Thailand.

Meanwhile, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) have continued to claim that a worker crackdown was just a rumor.

-- NNT 2014-06-21

[Somtamnication]

That's because Thailand no longer has Cambodians?

[FangFerang]

Well, if you pack people into a military truck so they suffocate from the stuffing, then let deputy dogs shoot people, then proclaim that illegal workers are a plague (mostly a yellow issue since reds are poor farmers and generally, generally do not hire foreign workers)...

Then you have the current situation. This exodus stopped very quickly...and who benefits?

Not the reds. It's entirely fair, of course.

Despite some very flagrant non-actions like education and immigration reform and the illegal worker issue, I think Kuhn General Prayuth O-cha is doing an excellent job. I, and many other people, merely see that reform and anti-corruption is quite selective....

Oh, well, who cares about Myanmar slaves and all that and this as long as Thaksin has no power..........it's for the good of the country that some corruption is allowed to continue as long as it does not benefit those sand-dwelling ear medicine guzzling shopping spree loving Shins. After all, one set of sinners is WAY better than those other sinners.

Who cares if many people are dying and being exploited by yellow factions? They are a better option, simply because they urinate champagne....

Yeah.....right.

[thumper101]

Well, if you pack people into a military truck so they suffocate from the stuffing, then let deputy dogs shoot people, then proclaim that illegal workers are a plague (mostly a yellow issue since reds are poor farmers and generally, generally do not hire foreign workers)...

Then you have the current situation. This exodus stopped very quickly...and who benefits?

Not the reds. It's entirely fair, of course.

Despite some very flagrant non-actions like education and immigration reform and the illegal worker issue, I think Kuhn General Prayuth O-cha is doing an excellent job. I, and many other people, merely see that reform and anti-corruption is quite selective....

Oh, well, who cares about Myanmar slaves and all that and this as long as Thaksin has no power..........it's for the good of the country that some corruption is allowed to continue as long as it does not benefit those sand-dwelling ear medicine guzzling shopping spree loving Shins. After all, one set of sinners is WAY better than those other sinners.

Who cares if many people are dying and being exploited by yellow factions? They are a better option, simply because they urinate champagne....

Yeah.....right.

Man... You have no idea what the hell you are talking about.

This has nothing to do with red or yellow.

Stop criticizing The Junta... they have been in power for one month and you expect everything to be completely overhauled and fixed in that time when they haven't even started reforms yet????

Get out of your silly daydream and wake up to reality. What they have achieved up to now has been quite amazing.

As for you red and yellow lust for divisiveness.

You hint that all the powerful employers and businessmen are yellow elites while the reds are just poor farmers who employ no foreign labour?.... you want to get into the fields in the north and northeast, you will see that the actual bulk of migrant labour are Burmese working on the farms, at a rate of about 3 Burmese to 1 Thai. Getting 150 baht a day and the most appalling living conditions and many small children too.

Those are the true facts.... That is the higher scale of the migrant worker misery. Not the Cambodians who mostly work on the construction sites and in factories... Those have much better pay and conditions.

In closing.... It is the all powerful yellows that bring all the wealth and prosperity to Thailand, and it is the 'poor' reds who suck that wealth back out of the system.

A trillion baht embezzled under the last 'RED' government (a third of Thailand's entire wealth), and do you really believe that money is still in Thailand?????????

[Lupatria]

Regarding the predicted energy problems, I hope the last Cambodian construction worker will not forget to turn off the lights.