Migrant workers from Myanmar given fee exemption to return home from Thailand

13 April 2016
Migrant workers from Myanmar given fee exemption to return home from Thailand
Myanmar migrant labourers carrying baskets of salt to load into a truck after the harvest at a salt farm in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand, 05 April 2016. Photo: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA

Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has exempted fees for migrant workers from Myanmar to return home during the Thingyan holiday, the National News Bureau of Thailand reported on 12 April.
Labour Minister Sirichai Distakul said the exemption of the fees was aimed at forging good relations with neighbouring countries the report said.