About 4,000 workers at the M&aMp;V Textile factory in KoMpong Chhnang province, which supplies well-known brands such as H&aMp;M and Gap, went on strike yesterday Morning to deMand a pay raise, a union representative said. Meas Sokhen, a representative of the Free Trade Union, said ...

The Commanding General of the Philippine Army Eduardo m. Año pledged to strengthen bilateral ties with the Kingdom and train Cambodian armed forces in natural disaster relief, sea security, drug trafficking and illegal border crossing prevention on Friday during a meeting with Commander-in-Chief of the ...

Thirty-four garment factory workers fainted yesterday morning in Kompong Chhnang province, making it the third time in a year that a mass fainting has occurred at the factory, workers said yesterday. m&V International manufacturing LTD. factory, which is a supplier to Swedish clothing brand H&m, experienced two incidents of ...

At the M&aMp;V International Manufacturing Factory in KoMpong Chhnang province last week, 5,000 workers filed through the gates, sat behind their neat rows of sewing Machines and refused to work. A year earlier, hundreds of feMale workers had fainted at the factory after coMplaining of ...

Globally, an estimated 2.5 billion people don’t have a bank account, but many own a cellphone, fuelling a race to turn these phones into bank books for the ‘unbanked’ to store cash, manage their accounts, make purchases and send and receive money – part of ...

More than 30 faMilies continued to deMonstrate in Preah Vihear province’s Chheb district on Friday and Saturday over what they say is the illegal clearing of land by a Chinese coMpany, villagers said Sunday. The faMilies accuse Rui Feng (CaMbodia) International of clearing 500 hectares of ...

A 350-kg M117 aircraft boMb believed to have been dropped during the US’s carpet boMbing of CaMbodia was uncovered in Takeo province’s TraM Kak district yesterday by local residents, an official said.   ...

About 30 people representing 10 families who are concerned about a road construction project have petitioned the Phnom Penh municipal Administration for a solution. ...

Amidst ongoing negotiations to boost the minimum wage for garment workers in Cambodia, H&m, the world’s second-largest fashion retailer, has rolled out a program aimed at improving pay in the Kingdom’s factories, arguing that higher wages improve industrial relations and productivity. ...

Swedish apparel giant H&m yesterday responded to a new report that alleged labour rights abuses in its Cambodian supplier factories by saying such issues plagued the entire industry and were difficult for any one company to fix.   ...

A couple was arrested in Preah Vihear province’s Chheb district yesterday morning after the woman in the pair – a local land activist – protested against being moved from the area to make way for a local infrastructure project. military police, forestry police and other ...

A weekslong strike by more than 2,000 workers from a Phnom Penh factory that supplies global fashion brand H&m ended Wednesday after unions scaled down their original demands and backed down over a condition that workers receive their full salaries for the strike period, representatives ...

Another worker fainted at the M&aMp;V International Manufacturing Ltd garMent factory in KoMpong Chhnang yesterday Morning, sparking “hysteria” and resulting in 10 workers having to return hoMe to rest, a union official said. Two Mass-fainting incidents occurred at the factory, which produces clothes for outfitter ...

The Cambodian Alliance of Trade Unions (CATU) sent a letter to the ministry of Labor yesterday requesting that all of the country’s factory owners pay workers their salary earlier than usual ahead of Khmer New Year. Workers are normally paid on the fifth to the ...

The outlook of local farmer’s remained dismal even as the price of pigs doubled during the second quarter, with many of them pointing to a lack of government regulation as a factor that is sowing market unreliability. Rising to $2.20 per kilogram from just over ...

The Cambodian mine Action Centre yesterday retrieved and neutralised a massive m117 bomb from Kampong Speu province’s Prek Kmeng commune, and safely detonated four smaller bombs found in Preah Sihanouk province on the same day. ...

Almost 200 workers received medical treatment yesterday following yet another mass fainting at the m&V International manufacturing Ltd garment factory in Kompong Chhnang province. The International Labor Organization said that the factory was a supplier to the Swedish clothing brand H&m and that it was ...

Swedish clothing giant H&m recently announced a program to boost wages for garment workers in its sub-contractor factories around the world, including in Cambodia, where the company is a leading buyer. H&m’s announcement comes at the end of a turbulent year in the garment sector ...

H&m has pledged to pay a living wage to 850,000 textile workers after expressing frustration over a lack of action by governments to address working conditions in Asian factories in the wake of the Rana Plaza disaster. The world’s second-biggest clothing retailer said it would support ...

Clothing giant H&m is testing the garment production waters by entering into exclusivity agreements with factories in Cambodia and Bangladesh, according to a report from Bloomberg News yesterday. This means that Sweden-based H&m would buy all of the factory’s output. H&m, it seems, would still be ...