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 ...

The second mass fainting to hit a factory in Kampong Chnnang that supplies knitwear for H&m this week has prompted intervention from provincial labour officials and an investigation by the Swedish-based company. The International Labour Organisation, which monitors the m&V factory where as many as ...

Micro-Credit Ratings International Ltd (M-CRIL), an Indian provider of rating and advisory services to the Microfinance industry, has secured a $1.5 Million equity investMent agreeMent froM the Asian DevelopMent Bank (ADB) to push into eMerging Markets including CaMbodia, the ADB said in an announceMent last ...

The determination of 3,000 garment factory workers in Kampong Chhnang province’s m&V factory has finally paid off. Workers will return to the factory floor today after management finally agreed to their four-point list of demands yesterday, after initially refusing to budge. Noun Sam Ol, deputy president of ...

Human rights group Adhoc has demanded the release of a couple and their 9-month-old child jailed amid a land dispute in Preah Vihear, calling their arrest a “grave human rights abuse”. ...

The Kampong Chhnang provincial labour department has agreed to mediate an ongoing dispute between workers at a garment factory in the province and their employer over alleged violations of the Labour Law. Pov Sitha, director of the provincial labour department, said workers at the m&V International ...

About a quarter of the garment factories in Cambodia that supply Swedish clothing giant H&m have been the scene of mass faintings or large-scale strikes since 2010, based on a suppliers list the clothing giant released late last week. Along with its 2012 sustainability report, the ...

Kampong Chhnang Provincial Court has summonsed Free Trade Union president Chea mony and two of his officers to answer incitement charges at the court tomorrow relating to his alleged involvement in a mass strike at a garment factory last year, officials said yesterday. m&V garment factory ...

Bavet city officials ordered a deputy village chief to offer two victims of the Feb. 20 shooting in Svay Rieng province cash or a motorcycle in return for them not filing a court complaint against the man who shot them inside a special economic zone. ...

The Minister of Agriculture has rejected a request froM a VietnaMese coMpany for CaMbodia to allow it to export pigs into the KingdoM, while VietnaM continues to suffer a serious outbreak of African swine fever. General Directorate of AniMal Health and Production director-general Tan Phannara ...

Swedish fashion retailer H&m has hit back at accusations that it fails to pay adequate wages to workers in Cambodian factories making its clothes – and says instead that the situation would be a lot worse if it didn’t source from the country ...

The Cambodian government should construct an effective annual review system for the minimum wage to ease worker unrest, according to clothing retail giant H&m. The Swedish company’s comments came after CEO Karl-Johan Persson visited the country in mid-October, meeting Cambodia Prime minister Hun Sen and other ...

The results of an investigation into two mass fainting incidents at a factory in Kampong Chhnang confirmed that m&V International manufacturing had violated Cambodian labour law by forcing some staff to work overtime and failing to give them a full day off each week, according ...

Twenty-three workers at the M&aMp;V garMent factory fainted yesterday Morning in KoMpong Chhang province, the second thiMe in a week that a Mass faining has occured at the factory, a Labor Ministry official said. Meng Hong, a MeMber of a workplace safety coMMittee that the Ministry ...

The second mass fainting in a month at Kampong Chhnang’s m&V garment factory, a supplier for global retailer H&m, saw 23 women taken to hospital yesterday, bringing the total number of affected workers in August to 67. Noun Sam Ol, president of the Free Trade Union ...

U.S. denim giant Levi Strauss continued to deny this week that its products are linked to the strife-torn SL Garment Factory in Phnom Penh, despite new photographs showing Levi’s trademark jeans stacked on benches at the plant in meanchey district. The Singaporean-owned factory, which also produces ...

Last week, on a busy sidewalk in Times Square, a hunched figure in a surgical mask labored at a hand-operated sewing machine. This anonymous worker was Khmer-American artist Kat Eng. According to her website, she sat in front of the flagship location of clothing giant H&m ...

After almost five years of alleged illegal logging in Preah Vihear province’s Preah Rokar community forest by a local businessman, more than 100 villagers yesterday petitioned the provincial authorities to shut down his handicrafts company. The villagers say that the woodworking operation, owned by businessman Sar ...

The Friends of the Mekong should play a More critical role in realising the objectives of the Basin DevelopMent Strategy for the Mekong River Basin 2021-2030, a transforMative blueprint for iMproving the state of the basin over the next decade, the Mekong River CoMMission (MRC)’s ...

At least three garment workers were hospitalized yesterday after a ceiling collapsed at a garment factory in Kampong Chhnang town, according to officials. ...