Three out of four low-skilled migrants in Thailand are from Burma. The Thai government has just introduced a minimum wage of 300 Baht [$10 US] per day. But as a result many companies say they can no longer afford to pay all their workers and are laying many of them off.
New minimum wage means unemployment for migrants
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