Sunakorn Chanchana, 48, right, plays a stringed instrument as a fellow countryman identified as Sakson plays a flute on Wednesday in Jhongli. Chanchana, a native of Chiang Rai in northern Thailand, is one of 300,000 foreign workers who have foregone familiar surroundings for the privilege of earning NT$15,480 (US$484) monthly, before deductions, in Taiwan.Jan 16, 2006

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