HomeTrafficking victims rescued from Thai fishing boatA migrant worker from Myanmar gets off a fishing boat at a seafood market in the town of Mahachai
A migrant worker from Myanmar gets off a fishing boat at a seafood market in the town of Mahachai
A migrant worker from Myanmar gets off a fishing boat at a seafood market in the town of Mahachai near Bangkok early March 11, 2010. Right groups have raised concern about the February 28 deadline for more than a million migrant workers to start a process to verify their nationality, or face possible deportation from Thailand. Rights groups said the process is complicated, prohibitively expensive and unrealistic particularly for migrants from military-ruled Myanmar, many of whom enter Thailand illegally and may have trouble getting cooperation from home country in the verification process. Millions of migrant workers are a key source of manual labour in the $264-billion economy, Southeast Asia's second-biggest, employed widely in the construction, tourism and manufacturing sectors. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj (THAILAND - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS)
