No Malaysia agreement on migrant workers
About 177,000 Cambodian men and women were working abroad as of the end of 2010, and about $180 million was remitted to Cambodia from 126,000 migrant workers in Thailand, Malaysia, Japan and South Korea last year, according to a letter written by Prime Minister Hun Sen obtained yesterday. Mr Hun Sen also said that although the government has been in touch with Malaysian authorities to discuss allegations of mistreatment of Cambodian maids in Malaysia, the two nations had not yet agreed to sign a Memorandum of Understanding on the issue...
