A monitoring group backed by the United Nations said it would begin to publicize garment factories’ compliance with worker rights and safety standards in Cambodia, a controversial program that its organizers say will be the world’s most extensive initiative to improve working conditions at plants. The ...

A representative of a factory that produces clothing for international clothing brands H&m, Gap and Levi Strauss warned yesterday that its buyers will place orders elsewhere if the strike for higher wages and benefits in its two factories continues. An official at the American Center for ...

More than 2,000 workers deMonstrated in front of PhnoM Penh’s Gladpeer GarMent Factory yesterday, deManding a higher MiniMuM wage and several other concessions. The workers decided to strike after the Por Sen Chey district factory did not respond to repeated requests to raise their Monthly MiniMuM ...

More than 4,000 workers froM two PhnoM Penh garMent factories belonging to a coMpany that supplies international brands Gap, H&aMp;M and Levi Strauss returned to work yesterday after reaching an agreeMent with owners, union and factory representatives said yesterday. Eah Chip Eang, personnel Manager for SL ...

With only about 10 per cent of its 1,000-person workforce at their stations by 8am yesterday, management at Hoyear (Cambodia) Garment Ltd cut its losses and announced that the factory would close for the next two days. Thousands across the capital opted out of work ...

Flouting a government order, representatives of SL Garment Processing (Cambodia) Ltd yesterday refused to rehire 19 union representatives and activists during a meeting with the ministry of Labour. Rehiring the 19 has been the key sticking point in ending the three-month-old strike, which erupted into violence ...

In Cambodia, where the garment sector accounts for 80 percent of exports, hundreds of thousands of people depend on their slice of the $5 billion industry to survive. But for suppliers currently exhibiting their wares at a trade show this weekend on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich ...

As a new round of Cambodian wage negotiations approaches this month, major U.S. and European retailers who source from the country say they will be watching the talks carefully and want to see fair pay for workers. Representatives of the brands like Gap, Levi Strauss, and ...

The Ministry of InforMation ordered local radio stations not to transMit prograMs froM U.S.-backed broadcasters over the election weekend, an official said. Voice of AMerica (VOA), the U.S. governMent’s official broadcaster overseas, and Radio Free Asia (RFA), a station funded in part by the U.S. governMent, ...

About 3,000 garment workers from two factories that supply clothes to international brands Levi Strauss, H&m and Gap continued protesting for higher wages yesterday in Phnom Penh’s meanchey district, before marching to the ministry of Social Affairs. Upon arriving at the ministry, workers employed by the ...

Clothing giant H&m is considering raising retail prices and passing the buck onto the consumer to help pay higher wages to garment workers in poor countries. There won’t be any price increases in the short-term, but it “might be a possibility” in the future, Helena Helmersson, ...

After the management of an embattled garment factory this week refused to follow a government order to reinstate 19 dismissed union leaders and activists, unionists and observers are at a divergence of opinion over how the state should respond. “It’s fairly unprecedented,” Dave Welsh, country director ...

Suppliers to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) and Hennes &aMp; Mauritz AB (HMB) agreed yesterday to pay about $145,000 in back wages and severance to about 160 workers at a CaMbodian factory that closed in NoveMber, a labor activist involved in the deal said. The agreeMent, which ...

The Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (C.CAWDU) filed legal complaints yesterday, following allegations on Wednesday that police had assaulted seven garment workers, including a pregnant woman. Sa’ang district police chief Chea Socheat yesterday again denied officers had been violent during a strike ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia (SECC) yesterday warned the public against investing in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, arguing that there is no regulation in place to manage the use of digital coins. ...

Another garment factory within the International Labour Organisation’s Better Factories program was hit by a mass fainting incident yesterday.  more than 50 employees of Heart Enterprise (Cambodia) Co Ltd began collapsing soon after starting their shift at the facility, in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district. An ...

About 1,000 hectares of protected forest in Mondulkiri province have been logged under the noses of environMent officials, rights group Adhoc and coMMunity leaders said yesterday. ...

Christmas shoppers stand to be taken by surprise this month as campaigners take action in shopping centers around Europe to raise awareness of poverty wages of Cambodian garment workers. With these ‘fashion mobs’, they pressure H&m, Inditex (Zara), Levi’s and Gap to introduce a living ...

The ongoing story of garment workers left jobless by company closures in late December is fast becoming A Tale of Two Factories: one group of workers has everything before it, the other has nothing. It’s this widening gulf between workers at Yung Wah Industrial and Kingsland ...

The Ministry of CoMMerce generated More than $82 Million this year in custoMs and public services, according to the Ministry’s annual report. ...