Myanmar Migrant Woker

Myanmar Migrant Woker

Myanmar migrant workers are tested for Covid-19 in Mahachai, in Thailand’s Samut Sakhon province, in the first week of January 2021. (Photo: Supplied)
Myanmar migrants struggle as second wave of Covid-19 hits Thailand
Discrimination has made the resurgence of the coronavirus in Thailand especially hard on Myanmar...
Published on Jan 10, 2021
After years abroad, former migrant workers struggle to rebuild lives in Myanmar
Migrant labour rights groups say government could be doing more to facilitate the return of migrant workers both abroad and in urban centres
Dec 2, 2019
Myanmar migrant workers arrive at Incheon airport in 2017 (Photo: Myanmar labour attaché in Korea)
Fraudsters in South Korea Target Myanmar Migrants
Workers have been left with debts for loans and phone bills after scammers duplicated their ID cards
Oct 25, 2019
Thai police arrested four Myanmar migrant workers in 2015 and made them re-enact the murder (Photo by Htoo Chit)
‘We’ll Arrest Your Family if You Don’t Confess’... Myanmar Migrants ‘Scapegoated’ by Thai Police
A Thai girl’s murder led to the wrongful conviction of four Myanmar migrants. Advocates say it is a familiar story
Oct 1, 2019
Migrant workers operate on a fishing boat in Mae Klong district, Samut Songkhram province, Thailand, 07 May 2015. Photo:Narong Sangnak/EPA
Voices of Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand
It is estimated that 2.5 to 3 million Myanmar workers are toiling away in Thailand, at least half a million of whom are in Samut Sakhon alone, a province next to Bangkok. Yet only...
Oct 20, 2015
Myanmar expats wait in line to cast their vote outside the Myanmar Embassy building in Singapore, 15 October 2015. (Photo: Wallace Woon/EPA)
Of millions of Myanmar migrants in Thailand, just a fraction set to vote
The details of that morning 25 years ago are hazy but Than Than Aye remembers vividly the palpable excitement as an 18-year-old voting in her first election. She does not remember who...
Oct 17, 2015