A total of 130 Myanmar migrant workers are returned to Myawady on January 31 due to a factory closure in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, sources said.

The factory is owned by a Chinese and more than 300 workers were working in it. The factory is closed abruptly as raw materials from China cannot send due to the outbreak of novel coronavirus.

The migrant workers are working in Thailand under MoU agreement and they had to pay around Ks1 million to work in Thailand officially. The factory closure made them suffer, they said.

Wai Lin Maung, a Labour Consul based in Mae Sot, helped the migrant workers to return to Myanmar and went to meet with the recruitment agents to ask compensation for the workers.

The labour consul also met with Ye Min and Aung Myat from Aid Alliance Committee (AAC).

Ye Min urged officials from Myanmar and Thailand to cooperate to ask compensation for Myanmar workers, who became jobless, due to the factory closure.