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Steel Mill Killing Mars Progress on Thai Industrial Disputes

Our Correspondent
Jan 31, 2008
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Raksak Kongtrakul was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time last week when a gunman shot him dead at the construction site of Thailand’s first steel smelting plant in southern Prachuab Khiri Khan Province.

The 36-year-old male had taken a temporary job as a construction worker for Sahaviriya Steel Industries, Thailand’s largest steel firm, to suppo…

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