BANGKOK: Thai and Cambodian officials agreed Tuesday to quash "rumours" of a crackdown on illegal migrant workers by the new Thai junta following the exodus of nearly 180,000 Cambodian labourers.
The junta has since insisted there is no "crackdown" and blamed false rumours for the exodus of what could be, by some estimates, the entire undocumented Cambodian population in Thailand.
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