The worst flooding Thailand has seen in decades is forcing hundreds of Cambodia working in garment factories there back home, where flooding id also displacing thousands. By mid-afternoon yesterday, 350 Cambodians put out of work by flooded factories in Thailand had crossed the border into Banteay Meanchey province, said Ouk Keo Rotanak, spokesman for the provincial government. “It is the first time that serious flooding in Thailand has closed down their factories, which has made our legal migrant workers return home,” he said. According to Mr Rotanak, a total of eight Thai garment factories near the Cambodian border have been forced to shut by the floods. With so many closed factories and no immediate end to the flooding in sight, Brigadier General Lo Mithona of the northwest military border’s commission office said he expected the number of Cambodian migrant workers returning home to climb past 1,000 in the coming days. Captain Leak Romnea, chief of administration for the immigration police in Poipet, said 269 Cambodian migrant workers returned home through the city’s checkpoint yesterday alone, “They came home because they are legal workers,” he said. High floodwaters have also swept into Banteay Meanchey in recent days from both the Tonle Sap and Thailand, forcing thousands of families there from their homes.
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