Registrations of migrant workers in Thailand to be carried on until March 2015

BANGKOK, August 1 (TNA) - The Thai Ministry of Labour says that most one stop service (OSS) centres, opened to facilitate legal registrations of migrant workers from Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia, will operate until March 31, 2015. Suvit Sumala, Deputy Director-General of the ministry’s Department of Labour Protection and Welfare, told journalists on Friday that the OSS centres have already been opened in 53 additional Thai provinces, apart from those having earlier been opened in 28 provinces. Suvit assessed that more migrant workers from the neighbouring countries should come to work in Thailand during the period, especially those who apply to work in the local fishery industry. Suvit revealed that the army-led National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) has, however, ordered OSS centres for Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand's eastern border provinces of Chanthaburi and Sa Kaeo be opened until October 31, 2014, after two other OSS centres in Surin and Trat Provinces, also bordering Cambodia, were closed on July 25 as scheduled. (TNA)