Government suspends Malaysia maids recruitment firm
Officials said yesterday that the government had suspended a recruitment agency in Kompong Chhnang province suspected of forcibly confining 45 women and that plans were underway to shut it down permanently. Police rescued the women, including 26 girls under the age of 18, who were training for domestic labor jobs in Malaysia, during a weekend raid on the provincial training center of the T&P Recruitment agency. Chiv Pally, deputy director of the Interior Ministry’s anti-human trafficking department, said the Labor Ministry had suspended T&P yesterday and that he would ask both the ministry and the National Police to terminate the firm’s work license once he finishes his investigation…
