Leaving border camps for orchards, Myanmar refugees join Thai workforce

Leaving border camps for orchards, Myanmar refugees join Thai workforce

Leaving border camps for orchards, Myanmar refugees join Thai workforce Tun Min Lat climbs a bamboo ladder in the longan orchards of eastern Thailand, moving from tree to tree as he plucks the juicy tropical fruit in the sweltering heat of a November morning. For the first time in the nearly two decades he has lived in Thailand, the 42-year-old Myanmar refugee is able to work legally."Now I feel like I can see a future," he told Reuters. In late…