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Factories Asked to Voluntarily Assess Safety
- 28 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Development policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Labor
- Better Factories Cambodia / ceiling collapse / construction / construction firms / enginering firms / Factories / Factory collapse / factory construction / Footwear / Garment factories / Garment Manufactures Association of Cambodia / Garment Manufactures Association of Cambodia secretary general Ken Loo / garments / GMAC / GMAC Secretary General Ken Loo / health and safety / illegal construction / International Labor Organization / Ith Sam Heng / Ken Loo / Kompong Spue / Ministry of Labor / Ministry of Labour / Ministry of Labour secretary of state Oum Mean / Ministry of of Social Affairs / Oum Mean / shoes / Social Affairs Minister Ith Sam Heng / structural audits / Top World Garment (Cambodia) Ltd. / Top World garment factory / Wing Star Shoes Co Ltd / Wing Star Shoes factory
The Garment Manufactures Association of Cambodia (GMAC) and International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Better Factories Cambodia yesterday asked factory owners to voluntarily conduct structural audits on their buildings in light of building collapses at two garment factories that killed two people and injured 23. “In the ...
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H&M Says Garments Made in Cambodian Factory Without Approval
- 22 May 2013
- Bloomberg
- Economy and commerce / Exports / Trade
- Anna Eriksson / apparel factories / Bangladesh / clothing retailer / construction / Europe / Factories / factory blaze / Factory collapse / factory construction / garment indusrty / garment sector / garments / H&M / H&M garments / H&M spokeswoman Anna Eriksson / health and safety / Hennes & Mauritz AB / HMB / Hong Kong / Sears Holdings Corp / Shoe factories / shoes / Stockholm / Subcontractors / Top World garment factory / unapproved factories / Wal-Mart Stores Inc / Walmart
Hennes & Mauritz AB, Europe’s second-biggest clothing retailer, said some H&M garments were produced without its knowledge or approval at a factory in Cambodia where workers were injured in a partial building collapse this week. A supplier of the Stockholm-based company placed two minor orders with ...
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 ...
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ASICS Wants Monitoring Of Cambodian Sub-Contractors After Accident
- 17 May 2013
- The Nation
- Development policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources
- ASICS / ASICS spokesman Katsumi Funakoshi / Better Factories Cambodia / Better Factories Cambodia program / Better Factories Cambodia program chief technical adviser Jill Tucker / Better Factories Cambodia programme / Better Factories Cambodia programme chief technical adviser Jill Tucker / Cambodian factories / Cambodian factories program / Cambodian factories programme / Canada / construction / Europe / Factories / factory construction / factory sub-contractors / factory working conditions / fire safety / fire safety monitoring / fire safety regulations / Garment factories / health and safety / health and safety regulations / International Labor Organization / International Labour Organization / Japanese aid / Jill Tucker / Katsumi Funakoshi / minimum wage / Phnom Penh / Shoe factories / sub-contractors / United States aid / US / wages / Wing Star / Wing Star factory / Wing Star Shoes factory / working conditions
The Japanese athletics brand ASICS said Friday that it would push its four Cambodian sub-contractors to join a programme that monitors conditions in garment and shoe factories. “We will strongly request to our sub-contractors in Cambodia to sign up to this programme,” Katsumi Funakoshi, ASICS ...
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/
Wary of China, Companies Head to Cambodia
- 8 April 2013
- The New York Times
- Economy and commerce / Investment
- A.F.L.-C.I.O.’s Solidarity Center / accident insurance / ADB / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Asian Development Bank senior economist Peter Brimble / baubles / Bradley Gordon / Chinese aid / David J. Welsh / diamond polishing factory / education allowances / European companies / factory construction / FDI / foreign companies / foreign direct investment / foreign investors / Garment factories / Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia Secretary General Ken Loo / Hiroshi Uematsu / Indonesia / Japanese aid / Ken Loo / manufacturing investment / medical insurance / Mekong river / Pactics Company / Peter Brimble / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone / Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone managing director Hiroshi Uematsu / poverty rate / Shanghai / Strikes / The Philippines / Tiffany & Company
Tiffany & Company is quietly building a diamond-polishing factory in Cambodia, a country popularly associated more with killing fields and land mines than baubles. Some of Japan’s biggest manufacturers are also rushing to set up operations in Phnom Penh to make wiring harnesses for cars and ...