Thailand's labor ministry is still on the hunt for half a million migrant workers from neighboring Burma who have gone underground rather than join a new foreign workers' program. Officials are now toying with extending the deadline, which ran out at the beginning of this month. They want to lure these workers from military-ruled Burma to renew their work permits and sign on to the nationality verification process. Human rights activists are extremely concerned about the situation of those migrant laborers facing forced deportation.

Report: Bernd Musch-Borowska / Sabina Casagrande