It’s been 18 years since the first batch of Thai workers travelled to Finland and Sweden to pick berries. Since then more than 110,000 Thai workers have travelled across continents for the lure of 130,000 - 150,000 baht for their two months of hard labour.

A needle has been found in a strawberry in New Zealand, police said Monday, the second incident to hit the country two months after a contamination crisis erupted in Australia.