PHNOM PENH -- The Thai government's decision to virtually close all land borders with Cambodia has cast a shadow over an estimated 1.2 million Cambodian migrant workers as well as the Thai economy.
International relations
Border 'closure' hits both Cambodian migrant workers and Thai economy
Anxiety rises for 1.2 million laborers at construction sites, plantations, fisheries
Cambodians prepare to cross during a temporary reopening of the border with Thailand to allow stranded Cambodians and Thais to return home at the Ban Klong Luk checkpoint in Aranyaprathet district, Sa Kaeo province, Thailand, on June 24. © EPA/Jiji
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