Migrant Workers Lost Jobs after a Landlord?s Plantation Business Ceases

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"About 133 Mon and other ethnic migrant workers from southern Burma lose their employments in Kanchanaburi Province of Thailand after a land dispute happen in Thai landlord, Seal Hook?s rubber plantation. Thai government?s Forestry Department is planning to confiscate all of these lands belonged to the landlord, as the officials found the lands have no legal document, the landlord himself took the lands from ordinary farmers in the area and it is also against the law if a Thai citicen belong a plot of lands which is over 500 Rais (or 333 acres), said a local source..."

Creator/author: 

Nae Non

Source/publisher: 

Independent Mon News Agency

Date of Publication: 

2005-07-08

Date of entry: 

2005-07-11

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English

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