Myanmar has coordinated with Thailand on recruiting new Myanmar workers to the latter after nationality verification, the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Wednesday.
The coordination was made during a recent visit of Myanmar Deputy Foreign Minister U Maung Myint to Phuket, meeting with ThaiLabor Minister Phaitoon Kaeothong last weekend, the report said.
Maung Myint also held talks with more than 300 Thai businessmen in the Thai border town and looked into the provisional passport issuing camp in Kawthoung, a Myanmar border town opposite to Thailand's Ranong.
Myanmar workers, after nationality verification, are being issued with provisional passports by the Myanmar side, while the Thai side would grant two-year work permit visa to them, it said.
Thailand is legally recruiting new workers from Myanmar on its labor demand, according to the report, which also disclosed that there are about 100,000 Myanmars working in Phuket.
The Myanmar authorities have opened temporary passport issuing offices in three border towns linking Thailand since 2006 to facilitate Myanmar workers to work in the neighboring country. The three border towns are Myawaddy, Kawthoung and Tachilek opposite to Thailand's Maesot, Ranong and Maesai respectively.
Temporary passports are being issued within a day for prospective Myanmar citizens to work in Thailand.
The measure was seen as Myanmar's bid to stop domestic illegal migrant workers to work in the immediate neighbor.
Under an agreement between the Myanmar Foreign Ministry and theThai Labor Ministry in 2006, Thailand offered to grant 10,000 Myanmar workers to work in factories and restaurants in the country.
According to earlier Thai statistics, there are 500,000 to 600,000 Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand.
Source:Xinhua
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