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  • Border-fuelled politics disrupts families’, businesses’ futures

    Border-fuelled politics disrupts families’, businesses’ futures

    Oct 15, 2025

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    Meng Kroypunlok, Anna Lawattanatrakul
    Meng Kroypunlok

    Mekong Indy and Prachatai talk to employers and migrant workers bracing for financial strain due to the ongoing Thai-Cambodia border conflict.

  • Finnish berry company CEO jailed for human trafficking over exploitation of Thai berry pickers

    Finnish berry company CEO jailed for human trafficking over exploitation of Thai berry pickers

    Sep 9, 2025

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    Prachatai
    Prachatai

    The District Court of Lapland has sentenced the CEO of a Finnish berry company to prison over 62 human trafficking cases involving Thai berry pickers.

  • Battered in the creative city: the lives of Chiang Mai’s workers

    Battered in the creative city: the lives of Chiang Mai’s workers

    Jul 4, 2025

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    Wanna Tamthong
    Wanna Tamthong

    Hear from Chiang Mai’s creative workers as they navigate rock-bottom wages, contract violations, and harsh working conditions, while employers cite obstacles to paying a living wage, and what makes it possible.

  • Yarnapund workers enter third week of hunger strike for severance pay

    Yarnapund workers enter third week of hunger strike for severance pay

    Apr 23, 2025

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    Nicha Wachpanich
    Nicha Wachpanich

    Six Thai autopart workers enter their third week of hunger strike, demanding accountability after hundreds were unfairly dismissed.

  • Thailand ‘bringing back the bad old days’ for fisheries, say activists

    Thailand ‘bringing back the bad old days’ for fisheries, say activists

    Apr 10, 2025

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    Tyler Roney
    Tyler Roney

    As protestors scramble to prevent rollbacks to environmental and labour protections, a leading politician defends the changes

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