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Bangkok Post
Bangkok Post
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UNBELIEVABLE: Mae sot sweatshop probe under way - Caught on Camera

Workers from Myanmar submit visa applications at the Tak Immigration Office in Mae Sot. Thousands more cross the border illegally each year and many end up working in sweatshops where labour laws are ignored and wages are well below the minimum.

Police and labour officials have begun screening more than 100 former workers at a factory in Mae Sot that supplied clothes to the UK retailer Tesco to determine if they were victims of forced labour.

Authorities are gathering more information as they follow up a raid on Dec 23, led by deputy national police chief Gen Surachate Hakparn, at the VK Garment (VKG) factory in the border town in Tak province.

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