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	The hungry and exhausted workers, found in the mountainous forest at about 1.30am, claimed that they were hired by a Thai investor to cut eucalyptus trees in the forest in exchange for Bt150 per tonne.&nbsp;</div>
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	But they didn&rsquo;t receive any daily payments for four days in a row and their employer threatened to have police arrest them for illegal entry, they claimed. They said they became unhappy and decided to leave the forest but ran into villagers and subsequently the police, said Thai-speaking Cambodian man Sokban Wee, 35.&nbsp;</div>
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	The workers were charged for illegal entry into Thailand. Police don&rsquo;t believe they were hired to cut eucalyptus trees because a few days earlier police had arrested 47 Cambodians in Thab Lan who also used the same excuse but later confessed to having been hired to cut and smuggle Siamese rosewood trees.</div>
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20 Cambodians arrested

Twenty Cambodian workers were arrested after they were found walking through the Thap Lan National Park World Heritage Site in Prachin Buri’s Na Dee district early yesterday.