News Forum - Families call on Thai authorities to help teenagers stuck in Myanmar under work contract

[Thaiger]

A group of parents and grandparents say their teenage children were trafficked to work in Myanmar and are now calling on Thai authorities to bring them back home. The families in Tak’s Mae Sot border district say 10 teenagers, between the ages of 16 and 19, were promised jobs at a casino just across the border in the neighbouring country, but apparently the teens were forced to sign a contract in Chinese, which they could not read. The families say the teenagers are now being overworked and underpaid. One teen’s grandparents told Nation Thailand that a group of Thais called […]

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[Jason]

It's really sad to see so many promised everything and given nothing.  There is a lesson here for all Thai teenagers and their families. I do hope the Thai Government will help to get them home. Burma is no place for anyone right now.

[gummy]

Promised job at a casino in Mynamar and their parents agreed to let them go and are now complaining ? . My my pull the other one. they were happy to send them when they could earn 4 to 5 times what they could earn here but now suddenly they cry "wolf". 

[AlexPTY]

how many girls travel every year to Middle East to work "as a staff" at hotels. I agree, it's sad, but there is no such thing as money for nothing. Dire Straits... 

[Paco]

many places they do these kind of things especially with prostitutes