In the Vajiralongkorn pond, nine Myanmar nationals are being detained on a speedboat.
PUBLISHED: 15 Dec 2024 at 13: 47
Five Chinese males aged 34-61 were arrested in Bangkok’s Huay Khwang area, dubbed” Little China”, while working improperly at a tower construction site.
Li Guahao, 36, Li Kaiwen, 61, Li Degao, 58, Feng Guayan, 41, and Tang Xianiao, 34 were arrested at a tower construction site on Ratchadaphisek Road in Hua Khwang at about 5.30pm on Saturday.
The five Chinese people, according to police, were on tourist visa but were employed improperly at the construction site, earning about 2,200 baht per day. Some of them used a shovel to evict the walls of an old structure it.
Bangkok’s Huay Khwang area is dubbed” Little China” because there are many Chinese-funded firms there.
In the Thong Pha Phum city of Kanchanaburi, military earlier on Saturday stopped a machine boat carrying nine improper Myanmar workers.
Authorities arrested the migrants along with two Thai males, both natives of Kanchanaburi’s Sangkhlaburi city. According to the officers, they charged each illegal immigrant with 700 ringgit for a journey from Sangkhlaburi’s Thong Phae Phum district’s Tha Phae Pier.
Some of the illegal workers said they wanted to work in different Thai regions farther from the frontier, and had each paid 10, 000-13, 000 ringgit to human smugglers. According to other Myanmar workers, they paid 139,000 ringgit each to travel to Malaysia to find work.
On Saturday, improper Myanmar migrants were detained on a ship in Kanchanaburi’s Vajiralongkorn dam tank. ( Photo: Piyarach Chongcharoen )