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[CSR Asia - Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia] Thailand’s sudden closure of the border crossing for traffic to and from Burma at the Three Pagodas Pass in Kanchanaburi province has led to food shortages and rising unemployment, according to this report. Thai authorities are thought to have closed the border in late May because of suspicions that factory owners were illegally cutting down trees on the Thai side of the border, smuggling them into Burma and using them to make furniture that was then sold in Thailand.

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