Myanmar migrant workers unlikely to seek jobs in Thailand again

Volunteers give free food to migrant workers from Myanmar who lost their jobs following theCovid-19) outbreak in Bangkok, Thailand on April 23, 2020.- Reuters

BANGKOK (Xinhua): Most Myanmar migrant workers, who have returned home from Thailand, are unlikely to come back for jobs in this country, a senior government official said on Thursday (May 28).

According to Suphaphimit Paorik, a deputy governor of Tak province, 75 per cent of over 1,800 Myanmar nationals, who crossed the Thai-Myanmar border from Mae Sot district of the western Thai province to Myawaddy township since earlier this month, told Thai immigration officials that it was unlikely that they would return to Thailand in search of jobs.