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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
Myanmar migrant workers are seen in Thailand's Samut Sakhon province in September 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic swept across the globe. (Photo: Tin Htet Paing/ Myanmar Now)
‘I guess we’re just supposed to starve’ - laid-off Myanmar migrants denied wages and trapped by Thailand lockdown
With businesses closed and travel restricted, tens of thousands are running out of food, money and options
May 14, 2020
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
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