Myanmar migrants

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05 February 2022
More than 250 Myanmar citizens arrested for illegally crossing into Thailand
In this handout photo from the Royal Thai Army released on October 25, 2021, Myanmar migrants are pictured after being apprehended by the Thai military personnel in Kanchanaburi province, bordering Myanmar. Photo: ROYAL THAI ARMY / AFP
News
25 January 2022
Illegal Myanmar migrant workers struggle to avoid...
First it was the COVID-19 pandemic. Now it is the aftermath of Myanmar coup. For the...
Undocumented migrants who are intercepted by the Thai authorities are immediately detained and processed for deportation (AFP/Handout)
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07 January 2022
'No legal pathways': Myanmar poverty...
Trekking through dense jungle and mountainous terrain at night to avoid arrest, one...
Myanmar migrants are apprehended by Thai military personnel in Kanchanaburi province bordering Myanmar. (Photo: AFP)
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03 January 2022
Cat-and-mouse game on Thai border as illegal...
As Thai revelers celebrated New Year, Myanmar migrants continued to test the immigration...
A general view Rohingya refugee camp. Photo: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP
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18 December 2021
NGO calls for the protection of Myanmar migrants...
The Mekong Migrant Network has expressed its concern over the Myanmar people who have...
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23 September 2021
AAC Alliance donates 10 million kyats and 1...
The Aid Alliance Committee (AAC), which is assisting Myanmar migrants in Thailand, has...
(File) Dozens of foreign workers in Malaysia have won a legal battle against US tyre giant Goodyear for underpaying them (Photo: AFP)
News
12 June 2021
Migrant workers including Myanmar nationals in...
Dozens of foreign workers in Malaysia have won a legal battle against US tyre giant...
Officials conducting immigration processes to Myanmar returnees from Thailand on 30 July. Photo: MNA
News
02 August 2020
Myanmar migrants return home during COVID-19...
Over 90,000 Myanmar migrants took advantage of a friendship bridge to return home from...
(File) Migrant workers queue in a registration line during a migrant laborer registration drive at a government One Stop Service Center for labor and immigration in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand. Photo: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA
News
10 May 2020
Myanmar migrants part of the thousands of...
Myanmar migrants are part of the thousands of migrants stranded worldwide by the...
Myanmar nationals wearing facemasks amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus speak with officials at the immigration post in Myawaddy near the Thai border on March 23, 2020, as thousands of people crossed from Thailand as the border crossings were due to close because of the growing pandemic. Photo: AFP
News
06 May 2020
Three-week quarantine for returning migrant...
Myanmar’s military and authorities in the country’s capital Naypyidaw are mandating a...
Migrant workers break apart blocks of pressed plastic bottles at the Thaiplastic Recycle Group plant in Samut Sakhon, outside Bangkok, Thailand. Photo: Diego Azubel/EPA
News
11 June 2019
Thai man arrested for Myanmar migrant smuggling
A Thai man was arrested on Monday for allegedly trying to smuggle 21 undocumented Myanmar...