Junta chief says Thailand still needs unskilled labourers from neighbouring countries

FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2014
Junta chief says Thailand still needs unskilled labourers from neighbouring countries

Junta chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha denied Friday that the Army would crackdown on illegal immigrants from neighbouring countries who have come in to work as unskilled labourers.

The reumours prompted workers, especially those from Cambodia, to flee en masse back to their countries.
Prayuth said Thailand still needed workers from the neighbourign countries to compensate for labour shortage in the country.
The Nation