ALOR SETAR: For the past five to six months, 23 Cambodians have had to wake up before dawn to pluck ketum leaves, guided only by torchlight.
Paid meagre salaries, the group, including three children, was brought in illegally to work in a ketum plantation and housed in squalid conditions.
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