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Standards Building Up Safety Fears
- 22 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Industries / Labor / Manufacturing / Real estate
- Alassane Sow / Building and Wood Workers Trade Union Federation of Cambodia / Building and Wood Workers Trade Union Federation of Cambodia (BWTUFC) / Building Safety Regulations / BWTUFC / Cambodia / construction / construction standards / Department of Land Management / Department of Land Management Deputy Director / Factories / Factory collapse / Garment factories / Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia / garment workers / GMAC / health and safety / health and safety regulations / illegal construction / Inspectors / Ken Loo / Ministry of Land Management / Ministry of Land Management Inspectors / Ministry of Social Affairs / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh City Hall / Phnom Penh City Hall / Regulations / safety / safety measures / Sar Bamnong / Sen Sok district / Shoddy Construction / Shoe factories / shoes / Structural Failure / Subcontractors / Top World / Top World Garment (Cambodia) Ltd. / Van Thol / Wing Star Shoe factory / Wing Star Shoes / Wing Star Shoes Co Ltd / World Bank / World Bank Country Manager Alassane Sow
When a 100-metre-long section of a Phnom Penh garment factory crumpled in on itself like a cheap pup tent, Sen Sok district officials promised an investigation. The results of that investigation, which was to have taken place more than a year ago, in March 2012, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052265780/National/standards-building-up-safety-fears.html
Factory Dining Hall Collapses in Phnom Penh; 23 injured
- 21 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Clothes / Development policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Garments and textiles / Industries / Labor / Manufacturing / Phnom Penh
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The dining hall of a garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district that supplies clothes to U.S. brand Gap collapsed into a pond Monday, injuring more than 20 workers who were eating lunch, workers and officials said. The hall, which is part of Top World Garment ...
Factory Orders Staff Back to Work Amid Safety Concerns
- 20 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Development policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Labor
- American Center for International Labor Solidarity Country Manager David Welsh / ASICS / ASICS spokesman Katsumi Funakoshi / building permits / Calmette hospital / Community Legal Education Center / Community Legal Education Center labor program head Moeun Tola / Community Legal Education Centre / Community Legal Education Centre labour programme head Moeun Tola / compensation / construction / construction standards / David Welsh / Factories / Factory collapse / factory construction / Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia / Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia chairman Van Sou Leng / health and safety regulations / illegal construction / Im Chhun Lim / Japanese aid / Japanese sports brand ASICS / Katsumi Funakoshi / Kobe / Kompong Speu / Kompong Speu Province / Kompong Speu provincial construction department / Kompong Speu provincial construction department bureau chief Mam Narey / Kompong Speu provincial department of land management / Kong Pisei district / labor / labor rights / labour / labour rights / Ly Hour / Mam Narey / Minister of Land Management Im Chhun Lim / Ministry of Land Management / Moeun Tola / Phnom Penh / Shoe factories / shoes / Van Sou Leng / Wing Star factory / Wing Star Shoes / Wing Star Shoes Co Ltd / Wing Star Shoes factory representative Ly Hour / worker conditions / worker rights
Employees at a Taiwanese-owned shoe factory in Kompong Speu province where two workers were killed when one of the building’s floors collapsed on Thursday have been ordered back to work today, despite ongoing concerns from labor activists about the building’s safety. While conceding that some parts ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/factory-orders-staff-back-to-work-amid-safety-concerns-25192/
After Factory Collapse, Questions Mount Over ILO Monitoring
- 17 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Development policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Labor / Labor policy and administration / Law and judiciary / Safety and health at work
- American Center for International Labor Solidarity / American Center for International Labor Solidarity Country Manager David Welsh / Bangladesh / Better Factories Cambodia / Better Factories Cambodia program / Community Legal Education Center / Community Legal Education Center labor program head Moeun Tola / construction standards / David Welsh / Factory collapse / factory construction / factory construction standards / factory working conditions / Garment factories / Garment Industry / health and safety laws / health and safety standards / health and safty / International Labor Organization / Kompong Speu / Kompong Speu Province / Kong Pisei district / labor / labor rights / Leng Tong / Ministry of Labor / Ministry of Labor’s occupational safety and health department / Ministry of Labor’s occupational safety and health department director Leng Tong / Moeun Tola / Monitoring in the Dark / Monitoring in the Dark Report / safety regulations / shoes / Solidarity Center / Stanford University Law School / transparency / Wing Star factory / Wing Star Shoes Co Ltd / working conditions
Labor rights activists and a government official accused the International Labor Organization’s Better Factories Cambodia program of ineffectiveness in its monitoring of factory conditions following a deadly ceiling collapse on Thursday at a shoe factory in Kompong Speu province. Moeun Tola, labor program head of the ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-factory-collapse-questions-mount-over-ilo-monitoring-24860/
Cambodian factory deaths shine spotlight on conditions
- 16 May 2013
- DW
- Development policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Labor
- American Center for International Labor Solidarity / American Center for International Labor Solidarity country director Dave Welsh / ASICS / Bangladesh / Better Factories Cambodia / Better Factories Cambodia technical adviser Jill Tucker / BFC / BFC program / construction / construction standards / Dave Welsh / EU / European Union aid / Factories / Factory collapse / factory working conditions / fire safety / footwear sector / garment indusrty / Garment Manufacturers' Association ecretary-general Ken Loo / garment manufacturing industry / garment sector / GMAC / health and safety / ILO / International Labor Organization / International Labor Organization's Better Factories Cambodia program / Japanese aid / Japanese companies / Jill Tucker / mass faintings / minimum wage / minimum wage increase / Pakistan / Phnom Penh / poor construction / Shoe factory / Strikes / triple shooting / United States aid / US / Wing Star factory / Wing Star Shoe factory / working conditions
The deaths of at least two Cambodian workers and injuries sustained by 10 colleagues at a shoe factory southwest of Phnom Penh once more shine a light on conditions in the global garment manufacturing industry. Thursday’s accident at the Wing Star Shoe factory in the Cambodian ...
http://www.dw.de/cambodian-factory-deaths-shine-spotlight-on-conditions/a-16819017
