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Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Even with the tense Cambodian-Thai face off in the Preah Vihear temple region, the Cambodian government still claims that there is no plan to repatriate back the 80,000 Cambodian workers in Thailand. In an interview with The Mekong Times on Wednesday, Um Mean, the under-secretary of state of the ministry of Labor and Vocational Training, said: “We have no plan to bring back our workers currently in Thailand, because we didn’t hear about any hardship from them.” Um Mean added: “We think that their repatriation at this time would be too hasty, and it could also cloud the tense atmosphere between the two countries as well.” According the ministry of labor report, currently, there are about 80,000 Cambodian workers in Thailand, both legal and illegal.
