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Restaurant offers free food to shunned migrant workers

A signboard in front of the Bon Bon Nakhon Sawan restaurant offers free food for Myanmar migrant workers in trouble. (Photo: Chalit Poomruang)

NAKHON SAWAN: A restaurant in this upper Central province is offering free food to migrant workers, particularly those from Myanmar, at a time when many other eateries are refusing them and their money.

Their benefactor is Apichai Chalanan, the owner of Bon Bon Nakhon Sawan restaurant on Wong Sawan road, near Uthayan Sawan Public Park.

Mr Apichai said that following the new outbreak of Covid-19, Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand had been shunned by many people, who feared they were carrying the virus.

Shops actually turned them away, refusing service, when they tried to buy food.

As a consequence, many migrants had to buy raw supplies from fresh markets and cook…

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