{"id":74868,"date":"2025-10-22T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T03:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/oct\/22\/thailand-to-let-myanmar-refugees-work-aid-cuts-labour-shortages"},"modified":"2025-10-22T12:00:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T03:00:53","slug":"thailand-to-let-myanmar-refugees-work-to-counter-aid-cuts-and-labour-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74868","title":{"rendered":"Thailand to let Myanmar refugees work to counter aid cuts and labour shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The move, welcomed by UN, will allow thousands of people living in camps to support themselves and their families<\/p>\n<p>Thailand is setting a global precedent this month by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2025\/08\/27\/thailand-allows-myanmar-refugees-in-camps-to-work-legally\">giving refugees permission to work in the country<\/a> in an effort to tackle aid cuts and its own labour shortages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theborderconsortium.org\/\">More than 87,000 refugees<\/a> living in nine refugee camps along Thailand\u2019s border with Myanmar have been totally reliant on handouts of food and foreign aid.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/oct\/22\/thailand-to-let-myanmar-refugees-work-aid-cuts-labour-shortages\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The move, welcomed by UN, will allow thousands of people living in camps to support themselves and their familiesThailand is setting a global precedent this month by giving refugees permission to work in the country in an effort to tackle aid cuts and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,59,82,494,61,93,84,3251,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-global-development","category-myanmar","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-thailand","category-united-nations","category-usaid","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74868"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74880,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74868\/revisions\/74880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}