International labour organisations Industrial Global Union, UNI Global Union and ITUC are seeking international support for a day of action in support of garment workers arrested during recent strikes in Cambodia. The groups are calling on people to demonstrate outside Cambodian embassies and deliver protest letters ...

In an effort to bring stability back to the country’s embattled but crucial garment industry, the ministry of Labor has joined forces with the International Labor Organization (ILO) and Swedish clothing giant H&m in a campaign for unions and factories to sign direct agreements to ...

About 50 striking garment workers representing more than 2,000 employees from m&V International Garment Factory yesterday gathered outside Phnom Penh municipal Court where they submitted a letter demanding a court order prohibiting their industrial action be scrapped. ...

The Free Trade Union (FTU) yesterday filed a complaint with Labor minister Vong Sauth on behalf of nearly 4,000 garment workers in Kompong Chhnang province against Chinese-owned m&V International manufacturing Ltd, alleging that they had been forced to work on International Women’s Day, which is ...

Workers from SL Garment factories and union representatives held their second round of talks at the ministry of Social Affairs yesterday as strikes at the Levi’s, Gap and H&m suppliers continued for the 12 day straight. ...

Forty-two families from Preah Vihear province’s Chheb district on Sunday held a demonstration to protest their pending eviction in favor of a Chinese company that plans to establish a sugarcane plantation on the land the families have occupied for almost three years. Local authorities have told ...

Cambodia’s factories are moving away from producing the most basic clothing items and diversifying to manufacture more intricate products for international buyers. As the garment sector has grown over the past decade, most garment factories have stuck to producing items such as T-shirts and jeans due ...

Labor Minister Ith SaM Heng said Tuesday that he has sent a letter responding to 30 international clothing brands who recently wrote to the governMent expressing their concerns over a draft union law which could allow for the arbitrary breakup of unions. Speaking outside a conference ...

Wah Seong Corporation Bhd’s strategy to develop a portfolio of renewable energy and power plants in the region is taking off after it inked an agreement with Cambodia. The company said on monday its indirect subsidiary had signed a power purchase agreement with Baitang (Kampuchea) Plc ...

Wah Seong Corp Bhd’s indirect subsidiary P.M.T.I Energy (CaMbodia) Co. Ltd. has entered into a power purchase agreeMent with CaMbodia’s Baitang (KaMpuchea) Plc to sell up to 3.5 Megawatt (MW) per hour of any and all electric energy generated and available for sale. ...

Jointly funded by Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and Hennes & mauritz (H&m), the project “Improving Industrial Relations in Cambodia’s Garment Industry” will be executed by the International Labour Organization (ILO). ...

Russian serial pedophile Stanislav Molodyakov&Mdash;who preyed on CaMbodian street children for years before he was deported to his hoMe country in 2012&Mdash;has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for raping dozens of schoolgirls, according to Russian Media. ...

The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has given the green light to three new investment projects with a total investment capital of $246.1 million. According to the council, the newly approved projects are expected to create some 1,547 jobs for the locals. ...

Criticism has mounted against Swedish multinational clothing company H&m in its home country following a documentary released last week that sheds light on wages in its source factories in Cambodia. The episode of Swedish network TV4’s Kalla Fakta, or Cold Facts, focuses mainly on Cambodian garment ...

When tales emerge from the retail supply chain, they’re usually tragic, like the alleged sweatshop conditions at the Foxconn (HKG:2038) plants that churn out Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) products, or the 112 Bangladeshi workers who died when their factory, where clothes for Wal-mart (NYSE:WmT), Sears Holdings (NASDAQ:SHLD), ...

H&m Hennes & mauritz’s head of sustainability Helena Helmersson was in Cambodia last week to meet with ILO/Better Works Cambodia on how to improve working conditions in export garment factories. Helmersson said in a blog post that the lack of dialogue between workers and factory management ...

By the time London Fashion Week comes to a close, 58 high-end designers will have shown their collections. Rail-thin models will have walked the runways. Debate will have raged over size zero. In Cambodia, meanwhile, garment workers stitching clothes that supply the UK high street are ...

Swedish fashion giant H&m Group said they were evaluating how the EU’s decision to withdraw one-fifth of the ‘Everything But Arms’ (EBA) scheme would impact their business and production strategy in Cambodia. ...

MORE than 4,000 workers at M&aMp;V Manufacturing International’s garMent factory in KaMpong Chhnang province continued to strike for a fourth day yesterday, as a union president urged PriMe Minister Hun Sen to force the coMpany to reinstate 20 fired workers. Free Trade Union president Chea Mony ...

Two financing agreements, implemented by the French Development Agency, were signed on 12 July 2012 at the ministry of Economy and Finance, in the presence of the Deputy Prime minister, minister of Economy and Finance, H.E.m. Keat Chhon, to support two key sectors for economic and rural development of Cambodia. A financing agreement of 800,000 Euros (1 ...