Government suspends sending maids to Malaysia

Following repeated reports of abuse and illegal activity, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday ordered recruitment agencies to indefinitely stop sending Cambodian domestic workers to Malaysia, officials said Friday. Secretary of State for the Labor Ministry Oum Mean said that he had received unofficial information about the order… The president of the Association of Cambodian Recruitment Agencies (ACRA), An Bunhak, who is also the chairman and CEO of Top Manpower Co Ltd, said he had been informed by the Ministry of Labor that Mr Hun Sen had issued a verbal order to stop sending the workers…