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BURI RAM, Aug 21 -  Buri Ram police arrested 15 illegal Cambodian immigrants on their way to Nakhon Ratchasima province for employment with a Thai swine farm owner. 

The Labour Ministry will work with Cambodian authorities to prevent job placement agencies and brokers from giving false information to Cambodian workers looking to work in Thailand.

The Labour Ministry will work with Cambodian authorities to prevent job placement agencies and brokers from giving false information to Cambodian workers looking to work in Thailand.

PHNOM PENH, 27 June 2012 (IRIN) - On most nights, Nara* was allowed to sleep no more than a few hours before he was forced to resume his gruelling routine of casting nets, sorting the catch and mending damaged nets, all while being watched by a captain eager to deliver a beating to any deckhand he thought was slacking.

A Memorandum of Understanding aimed at protecting maids sent to Malaysia may make headway in the next two months, a government official has said.

As about 5,000 workers marched through the streets of Phnom Penh yesterday to lobby for better pay and fairer conditions, Prime Minister Hun Sen used International Labour Day to talk up the opportunities arising from a labour shortage fast approaching 30,000 jobs.

Two first-time brokers were arrested yesterday in the capital’s Meanchey district while attempting to bring 13 men illegally into Thailand to be workers, police said – the latest in a string of broker busts.

A protracted struggle for freedom at a seafood factory in southern Thailand has all but ended, with hundreds of migrant workers from Cambodia finally regaining their passports yesterday.