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                    [ArticleID] => 380358
                    [Title] => Workers seek hope from Asean
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Laborer Andres Bartolome had dreams of good pay in New Zealand. He saved his money, bought his ticket — and ended up lost in Malaysia instead, eating snakes and lizards to stay alive.


Now he says he cannot return to his hometown before he finds a way to repay the money he borrowed to give the people-smugglers who ripped him off.

"I can’t go back," the 33-year-old told AFP.
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LABORER ANDRES BARTOLOME
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Laborer Andres Bartolome had dreams of good pay in New Zealand. He saved his money, bought his ticket — and ended up lost in Malaysia instead, eating snakes and lizards to stay alive.


Now he says he cannot return to his hometown before he finds a way to repay the money he borrowed to give the people-smugglers who ripped him off.

"I can’t go back," the 33-year-old told AFP.
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