Two Cambodians convicted following Thailand market melee
Officials are attempting to secure the release Of two Cambodian men who were sentenced to three months in a Thai prison on Thursday after being summarily convicted Of attacking government inspectors at a market in Sa Kaeo province the day before, according to the Ministry ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-cambodians-convicted-following-thailand-market-melee-107655/
Fumes from toilets lead to mass faintings at factory
More than 30 workers fainted at a garment factory in Kandal province over the past two days after inhaling noxious fumes circulated by a ventilation fan located near the facility’s toilets, an official said. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fumes-from-toilets-lead-to-mass-faintings-at-factory-107996/
PM vows to halt surprise factory closings
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday pledged his commitment to preventing garment factory owners from escaping their obligations to workers by closing their factories without warning, even as the current lack of a formal system for dealing with such situations has left at least one ...
Yon Sineat
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-vows-halt-surprise-factory-closings
Bid to stop fainting in factories
The Labour Ministry has created guidelines for owners in the garment and footwear industry to prevent factory workers from fainting. Labor Minister Ith Samheng issued an announcement yesterday containing 11 guidelines in an effort to reduce the stimuli causing workers to faint. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50100181/bid-stop-fainting-factories/
Report shows little sign of improvement at factories
A Better Factories Cambodia report shows little improvement in the continued use of short-term contracts and safety and health conditions for workers at surveyed factories, with total compliance of all exporting factories still stuck at less than 50 percent. The International Labour Organisation’s compliance program conducts ...
Yon Sineat and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/report-shows-little-sign-improvement-factories
228 workers died of occupational hazards, says ministry
As many as 228 factory workers across the country had died of occupational hazards between January and November, according to the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501403222/228-workers-died-of-occupational-hazards-says-ministry/
Acacia chip exports to receive tax break: PM
The tax imposed on the export of acacia chips is to be abolished to help boost exports of the locally grown raw product, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Monday. Speaking at the grand opening of Aeon Mall, Hun Sen said that acacia chips exported to ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/acacia-chip-exports-receive-tax-break-pm
Record Bad Medicine Haul
Police seized more than two tonnes of dangerous counterfeit medication on Saturday and arrested a Phnom Penh pharmacy owner in a sting officials say has netted the largest-ever haul of illegal medication in Cambodia. After nine days of surveillance, the Ministry of Interior’s Economic Police unit swooped ...
Gov’t vows crackdown on lawbreaking contractors
Contractors that dodge requirements to register with the social security fund, leaving workers to foot their hospital bills alone, will start facing harsher legal penalties, the director of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) said. ...
Jonathan Cox and Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18493/gov---t-vows-crackdown-on-lawbreaking-contractors/
Round of capitol bus negotiations fruitless
Negotiations between former drivers of the Capitol Bus Company and their ex-employer, mediated by Prampi Makara district authorities, yielded no settlement yesterday, although both parties agreed to continue talks. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/round-capitol-bus-negotiations-fruitless
Agreement signed to protect migrant workers
In an attempt to protect the interests and safety of Cambodian maids who travel to Malaysia, the Association of Cambodian Recruitment Agencies (ACRA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Malaysia National Association of Employment Agencies (PIKAP) last week, according to officials. ...
Mom Kunthea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25568/agreement-signed-to-protect-migrant-workers/
Firm offers to find jobs for cheated migrants
A recruitment company has offered to help find employment in Thailand for a group of migrant workers who have accused another firm of cheating them out of hundreds of dollars each and leaving them at the Thai border last week, the company’s director said Wednesday. ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/firm-offers-to-find-jobs-for-cheated-migrants-96050/
Milled rice exports gaining traction
The tonnage of the Kingdom’s milled-rice exports jumped nearly 50 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter, according to the Ministry of Commerce, with export revenues soaring as much as 82 per cent. Total exports of milled rice for the first three months of 2012 hit ...
EU concludes ‘frank’ talks on rights, reform
Four days of high-level policy meetings between the European Union and Cambodia wrapped up in Brussels yesterday, after seeing “frank and in-depth exchanges” on a number of issues, including human rights, according to an EU press statement released last night. Ahead of the meeting of ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eu-concludes-%E2%80%98frank%E2%80%99-talks-rights-reform
Thai Rights body censures firm over Koh Kong sugar plantations
The National Human Rights Commission of Thailand has accused the country’s Khon Kaen Sugar of “serious human rights violations” at its two Cambodian plantations in a new report that urges the firm to return the land to the hundreds of families forced off their farms—some ...
Zsombor Peter and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thai-rights-body-censures-firm-over-koh-kong-sugar-plantations-84968/
Workers face sex abuse: unions
Leaders of the Cambodian Labor Confederation have urged authorities to take action against employers who harass, threaten and use violence against female garment workers. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36281/workers-face-sex-abuse--unions/
Indochine protesters attacked
Five striking workers at a Kandal province garment factory were injured yesterday after a group of men allegedly showed up at the protest, attempted to steal equipment and beat several strikers. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/indochine-protesters-attacked
Mass faintings occur at 6 garment factories in Cambodia
At least 127 Cambodian garment workers At six different factories got fainted on Friday due to poor health, a local police chief confirmed. Yim SocheAt, police chief of Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district, where the incidents occurred, said the victims had been sent to hospitals soon after ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=235570
Dozens of enslaved fishermen return home from Indonesia
A group of 38 fishermen returned to Cambodia on Tuesday after being rescued from forced labor in Indonesia. ...
Alex Consiglio and Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/dozens-of-enslaved-fishermen-return-home-from-indonesia-84887/
Bavet factory ordered to close after mass faintings
The Svay Rieng provincial labor department on Monday ordered a Taiwanese-owned garment factory to temporarily close and improve its ventilation after more than 100 workers collapsed in two separate mass faintings in recent days. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/bavet-factory-ordered-to-close-after-mass-faintings-78102/