In Pixels: Malaysia's charcoal workers who risk life and health to do the work shunned by most

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Mr Mustapa Mustaman has spent more than two decades at a charcoal factory near Malaysia's quiet town of Kota Tinggi in Johor, Malaysia. The toll of the hard labour was evident on the 60-year-old's body that was covered in perspiration and surrounded by fumes. He spends eight hours a day turning wood into charcoal. "This work is not easy," the Indonesian said. "The labour is hard and (the environment is) hot. We work with heat, dust and smoke every day." Mr Mustapa is among the hundreds of

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