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COVID requirements and high employment fees mean some will try to enter the country illegally.

Hundreds of residents of Lay Kay Kaw, a small town controlled by Karen Guerrillas in Myanmar, have fled the country after Myanmar's military unleashed airstrikes and heavy artillery near the Thai Border.

Myanmar airstrikes displace more people along Thai-Myanmar border

VIENTIANE, Jan 12 (Xinhua): Local authorities have been urged to monitor border crossings to prevent people from entering Laos illegally from Thailand, to stem the spread of Covid-19 after a widespread outbreak in Thailand. Many Lao workers are returning home from Thailand, both legally and illegally, sparking fears of a second wave of Covid-19 in Laos, local daily Vientiane Times on Tuesday quoted Deputy Director General of the Department of Communicable Disease Control under the Lao Ministry of Health, Phonepaserd Sayamounkhoung as saying. "The taskforce and health authorit...

A returning migrant worker receiving supplies from city hall officers at a quarantine centre at the Serei Sophoan town hall in Banteay Meanchey province. - Phnom Penh Post/Asian News Network PHNOM PENH, Jan 11 (dpa): Cambodian authorities remain on alert as Covid-19 cases from Thailand continue to climb among returning migrant workers. Cambodia's Ministry of Health on Monday reported that 27 of the country’s 392 cases were linked to the outbreak in Thailand. The most recent was identified as a woman who arrived home from the country's northern neighbour on Friday. The woman ...