Elderly women from southern border provinces arrested for illegally working in Malaysia will be released and allowed to return to Thailand on Thursday. (Photo by Abdulloh Benjakat)Twelve elderly women duped into working as beggars in Malaysia and later arrested there will be allowed to return home on Thursday, the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centres (SBPAC) said on Wednesday. The centre said 12 women will be released, and nine others also being held in detention will be allowed to return home later. All live in southern border provinces. “The agent told the women to take worn-out clothes so people there would pity them and purchase their goods,” the Bernama news agency quoted Masadee Sulong, son of one of the arrested women, Hamita Salae, as saying in November.

Source: Bangkok Post January 18, 2017 10:09 UTC