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A | BANGKOK -- The first group of Thai workers evacuated from Israel after the past few days’ bloody events in southern Israel and Gaza arrived Thursday in the Thai capital of Bangkok, greeted by anxious relatives and senior officials.Hamas militants stormed through a border fence Saturday and killed hundreds of Israelis in their homes, on the streets and at an outdoor music festival. The Israelis have responded with punishing airstrikes and preparations for a possible ground invasion. The conflict has claimed at least 2,600 lives on both sides, including some Southeast Asian workers living in Israel.The 41 Thais who returned home on a commercial flight of the Israeli airline El Al included two men wounded in the violence who had to use wheelchairs to exit the aircraft.Farm laborers from Thailand seek work in more developed countries where there is a shortage of semi-skilled labor — at wages considerably higher than they can earn at home.Tens of thousands of workers in Israel from nations including Thailand and the Philippines send their earnings home to support their families. That money also helps to fire up their native countries’ economies.But the appearance of Thais and Filipinos on the lists of dead, wounded and missing in the past few days is a reminder that foreign workers toil in peril of their lives.About 30,000 Thais are working in Israel, according to the Thai Foreign Ministry, and about 5,000 of them live in the southern area near the border with Gaza.One of them, Katchakorn Pudtason, said his employer at the farm where he worked initially herded all his workers into a bunker when Saturday's attacks took place, but after they left it for lunch they could still hear shooting. As they were being driven back to their workplace, Katchakorn heard more gunshots and felt something hit his knee, he said.“I thought it was a rock but it went through. So I hit the truck and told the driver to drive away,” he said. He added that he was one of four people in the vehicle who suffered injuries that day. He was one of the two returnees who had to use a wheelchair.Thailand's Cabinet ministers for labor, defense and foreign affairs were at Bangkok's international airport for the evacuees' arrival. The government has vowed to look after the evacuees' physical and mental well-being.Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara said 5,990 Thais have registered to be evacuated and officials are working around the clock to accommodate them.“We need a Plan B to take out as many people as possible,” said Defense Minister Suthin Klangsaeng. “We will use military aircraft to evacuate people from the high-risk area to a third country, such as (the United Arab Emirates).”The number of Thais affected by the tragedy stood out in lists of non-Israeli nationals affected by the violence: Thailand’s foreign ministry Thursday said 21 Thais are believed dead and 14 wounded. Sixteen were believed to have been taken hostage.Survivor Chatree Chasri left his home in northeastern Thailand in 2019 to work in Israel as an agricultural laborer to pay off debts and provide for his wife and two children back home in Nakhon Phanom. Foreign work is a common path for Thais from the country’s economically disadvantaged rural areas, especially the northeast.Working under a government-to-government agreement, the 38-year-old has been farming tomatoes and cauliflower for the past four years in the southern Israeli town of Mivtahim, less than 10 kilometers (6 miles) away from Israel’s border with Gaza.Despite the occasional shelling and rocket attacks that sent him running for cover, his life at the farm had been OK until Saturday, he said from Israel in a phone interview with The Associated Press. Now he says he wants to come home, and never go back to Israel.Chatree was shot several times in his hip shortly after Hamas launched its rocket attacks and shock ground offensive into southern Israel, killing hundreds of people and capturing more than 100 who were hauled back to Gaza as hostages.Chatree was using a toilet at the farm where he works with other foreign laborers when he suddenly heard gunshots.“The sounds came closer and bullets went through the wall of the toilet,” he said, recalling the moment he was hit. He then saw two gunmen making their way into the workers' living quarters and open fire, so the workers fled outside to hide.Vibhavadi Vannachai, a Thai expatriate who has lived in Israel for nearly two decades and is coordinating with Israeli authorities to help the Thai workers, fears the number of victims may rise.Vibhavadi, originally from Nong Bua Lamphu province in Thailand’s northeast, works as an interpreter in a legal office whose cases mostly involve resolving disputes between Thai workers and their employers.She said abuse and violations of their rights are common, with many bound by years-long contracts but cheated of their wages. Many are forced to work long hours and are beaten if they refuse. Some have to live in “quarters that are not fit for human beings,” she said.Vibhavadi helped find temporary accommodations for Chatree and Padoong Bootmo, a 26-year-old Thai worker shot on Saturday who said the potato and yam farm where he works in Yesha was raided twice by gunmen and then burned down. Padoong said in a phone interview he had been able to send 40,000 baht ($1,100) home each month. He might under the best of circumstances make less than half that doing the same job in Thailand, but he said he doesn’t want to stay in Israel anymore.The killing of at least two Filipino foreign workers underscored the threats also faced by those workers in Israel. About 30,000 Filipinos live and work in the country many as caregivers who look after the elderly, the ill and those with physical disabilities, according to the Philippines' foreign ministry. The huge income they send back home, which last year amounted to an all-time high of $36.14 billion, has helped keep the country’s fragile economy afloat.One of the two Filipinos killed Saturday was a caregiver who was shot with her employer inside their house by Hamas gunmen, according to the Philippines Embassy in Israel. The other was killed under still-unclear circumstances.At least three Filipinos remain missing, embassy officials have said.Still, Foreign Undersecretary Eduardo de Vega said Wednesday that no Filipino has asked to be repatriated from Israel. Jeremiah Supan, a 34-year-old Filipino caregiver in Israel, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Wednesday that he made it clear to Philippines officials he did not want to return home. As the family breadwinner, he sends his earnings home to enable his 10-year-old son to remain in school and sustain other loved ones."The rocket firings continue” Supan said. “But if I leave, all that assistance that I send to my family back home will be lost.”___Gomez reported from Manila. Associated Press writer Grant Peck contributed.。　　存储龙头股亮相。　　8月21日，长江存储控股股份有限公司（公司简称“长存控股”）科创板IPO申报材料正式获得上交所受理，公司计划发行不低于19.8亿股且不超过24.3亿股，募集资金330亿元。　　银行系是股东名单中最显眼的力量。五大银行（工、农、中、建、交）旗下投资机构或投资平台直接持股，并列第9大股东。国家开发银行通过大基金一期、大基金二期间接持有，成为持股数量最多的持牌金融机构。招商银行亦以私募基金产品间接参与。

B | 　　券商同样没有缺席。华安证券在同行内间接持股数最多，国信证券、国泰海通、招商证券亦有布局。　　此外，易方达旗下投资机构、中邮人寿保险等机构也间接参与。　　“五大行”卡位长存控股　　8月21日，上交所受理了长存控股IPO科创板项目，中信证券及中信建投联合担任保荐机构。　　招股书显示，长存控股是存储器IDM企业，主营业务收入来源主要为NANDFlash产品。公司2025年营业收入631.85亿元，同比增长近40%；扣非归母净利润为133.09亿元，同比增长逾110%。

C | 此次IPO计划募集资金330亿元，用于长江存储量产线技术升级项目、研发相关募投项目。　　截至目前，长存控股共有29名股东。哪些中长期机构资金已提早布局，成为市场关注焦点。

D | 从金融系股东构成来看，银行系资本占据重要席位，且多数在2024年增资中集中进入。　　农业银行全资子公司农银投资、建设银行全资子公司建信投资、交通银行全资子公司交银投资、工商银行全资持有的工融金投（北京）新兴产业股权投资基金合伙企业（有限合伙），都分别直接持有长存控股1.02亿股。而“中银资产-长存1号债转股投资计划”持有同样股份数量，其资金均来自于中国银行全资子公司中银投资的自有资金。

E | 上述5家银行系机构或产品并列为第9大股东，发行前持股比例各0.61%。

F | 　　实际上，工商银行和农业银行的布局不止上述。另据券商中国记者对其他股东穿透至第三层发现，工商银行旗下的工银瑞信投资以及农业银行旗下的农银汇理资产，双双以LP形式投资中国互联网投资基金（有限合伙），该基金直接持有长存控股逾2000万股。

G | 　　不过，国家开发银行才是长存控股中持有股数最多的持牌金融机构。根据券商中国记者穿透统计，国家开发银行全资子公司国开金融有限责任公司作为“大基金一期”（国家集成电路产业投资基金股份有限公司）和“大基金二期”（国家集成电路产业投资基金二期股份有限公司）的LP，穿透后间接持有长存控股合计约1.19亿股。

H | 　　据悉，“大基金一期”早在2016年长存控股成立时即为原始股东之一，还通过持有芯飞科技（长存控股成立时的第一大股东）股份间接持股；“大基金二期”则在2023年第一次增资时进入。　　招商银行也“借道”私募基金产品参与对长存控股的投资。招股书显示，招赢成长贰拾壹号私募股权投资基金（深圳）合伙企业（有限合伙）（以下简称“招赢成长”）持有长存控股3277.31万股。券商中国记者根据天眼查对该产品的穿透，测算发现招商银行旗下的招银国际资本、招银国际金融控股、两大私募股权基金合计通过该产品间接持有长存控股逾600万股。　　有业内人士表示，近年来，银行系资金在私募股权投资领域的参与度持续升温，已成为市场上不可忽视的出资力量，尤其在国家战略产业的大型项目中，扮演着长期资本的稳定供给角色。

I | 　　券商系身影浮现　　除了银行系外，根据券商中国记者穿透至第三层股东发现，券商系同样以不同路径参与其中。根据记者不完全统计，至少有4家券商通过私募子或另类子公司进行投资。　　华安证券可能是券商中的最大赢家。

J | 天眼查信息显示，其私募基金子公司华安嘉业成立了“安徽皖投安华现代产业投资合伙企业（有限合伙）”，出资人以安徽省国资为主，华安嘉业持有约20%份额。该产品作为“大基金二期”的LP，间接投资了长存控股。据记者测算，华安嘉业间接持有长存控股近1500万股。　　国信证券的另类子公司国信资本则是上述招赢成长的LP，据记者计算，国信资本可能间接持有长存控股逾500万股。