By Thai Newsroom Reporters
NO LESS THAN 50,000 Cambodian migrant workers were estimated to legally depart from Thailand to their home country via a checkpoint in eastern Thai border province since the last few days until today (Aug.6) following recent border clashes and due to sustained tensions between the two neighbouring countries, according to an immigration official.
Of the estimated 50,000 Cambodian migrant workers returning on land from Thailand to their home country since the border conflict escalated into fighting late last month, no less than 20,000 were reported to leave today via Baan Laem border checkpoint in Pong Namron district of Chanthaburi across the border from Battambang in Cambodia. Many more were anticipated to follow suit tomorrow and beyond, according to the immigration official.
No less than 10,000 Cambodians have reportedly departed daily through the permanent border checkpoint in the eastern Thai province, known as the busiest for the Cambodian migrant workers.
A total of 435,000-plus Cambodian nationals were reported to have been employed for jobs such as farm hands and construction workers in the interiors of Thailand.
Most were known to have been evidently appalled at stern warnings sent from Phnom Penh through their relatives in Cambodia that they would be denaturalised and that parcels of land currently occupied by their relatives inside that country be confiscated by the state if they failed to return home from Thailand in the wake of the border conflict.
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Top and Front Page: Cambodian migrant workers flocking back home via Chanthaburi checkpoint today, Aug. 6, 2025. Photos: Amarin TV
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