(English) Turmoil marks year in labour
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Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/turmoil-marks-year-labour
Stories vary on latest mass fainting incident
Workers at a garment factory in Kampong Speu province that supplies global retailer H&m will return to work tomorrow, after more than 100 staff were hopitalised on monday, following what they and union representatives described as a mass fainting incident. A spokesperson for H&m’s headquarters in ...
As European leaders try to save the euro, uncertainty about fallout in Cambodia if they don't succeed
It’s after midnight in Sihanoukville and British teenagers are clogging the walkways, pushing past one another to drain free shots at the bars. In Kep, elderly French tourists sun themselves at the upscale Sailing Club while Spaniards and Germans eye the offerings at Phnom Penh’s Central market. In spite of the growing fears ...
Thousands Protest at H&M Factory, Demand Wage Hike
Thousands of garment workers yesterday protested outside a factory in Pur Senchey district making garments for the Swedish clothing company H&m, demanding a raise to their minimum wage and meal benefits, workers and union representative said. The workers of Gladpeer Garments Factory (Cambodia) Ltd., are demanding ...
Protesters Stage EU faint-ins
In a year in which more than a thousand Cambodian garment factory workers have fainted on the job, activists across Europe are demonstrating for higher wages and better working conditions in the Kingdom’s factories. Throughout the past week, demonstrators mimicked faintings by collapsing on the floors ...
(English) Brands dodge blame over substandard factory
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Holly Robertson and Sun Heng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/brands-dodge-blame-over-substandard-factory-64606/
Gov’t, Garment Sector Silent Over Letter Urging SEZ Probe
A senior official at the Commerce ministry and the secretary-general of the Garment manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GmAC) were both silent yesterday regarding a letter sent to the ministry by garment buyers on Friday, urging the government to intensify its investigation of last month’s triple ...
Brands Urge Gov't to Act on SEZ Shooting
Some of the world’s largest international clothing brands, along with foreign labor protection groups, have called on the Cambodian government to intensify its investigation of last month’s triple shooting of spectators at a Svay Rieng special economic zone. Signed by several of the biggest customers ...
New services, branches in Cambodia woo bank customers
Maybank, one of the largest banks in CaMbodia, has officially launched an internet banking service to provide a convenient service to its More than 10,000 custoMers and says it hopes to increase that nuMber by around 10 per cent. The service, called M2U, will enable custoMers ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/Business/new-services-branches-woo-bank-customers.html
Huawei withdraws injunction
Huawei Technologies (Cambodia) Co agreed yesterday to withdraw its injunction against mfone in order to pave the way for a court-appointed administrator to sell the bankrupt company’s assets and compensate its many creditors. Along with other creditors, Huawei representatives expressed concerns that the assets would ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013040964953/Business/huawei-withdraws-injunction.html
ប៉ូលីសបង្ក្រាបការតវ៉ាថ្មី នៅក្នុងប្រទេសកម្ពុជា
ប៉ូលីសកម្ពុជា បានបំបែកបាតុកម្មមួយ នៅក្នុងរាជធានីភ្នំពេញ កាលពីថ្ងៃអង្គារ និងបានឃុំខ្លួនសកម្មជនចំនួន ១១នាក់ ដែលកំពុងអំពាវនាវសុំជំនួយអន្ដរជាតិ ដើម្បីធានាការដោះលែងក្រុមអ្នកតវ៉ា ដែលបានចាប់ខ្លួន នៅក្នុងការបង្ក្រាបថ្មីៗនេះ ...
បុគ្គលិកសារព័ត៌មាន Channel News Asia
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/cambodian-police-in-new/962534.html
(English) Sihanoukville struggles to shake its seedy image
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Ouch Sony and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sihanoukville-struggles-to-shake-its-seedy-image-66108/
តុលាការចោទប្រកាន់តំណាងសហជីពបន្ថែមទៀតមុនកិច្ចប្រជុំជាមួយក្រុមហ៊ុនធំៗ
កាលពីម្សិលមិញ តុលាការខេត្តតាកែវបានចោទប្រកាន់តំណាងសហជីពប្រាំបីនាក់ពីបទញុះញង់ឲ្យកម្មករចូលរួមធ្វើកូដកម្ម ដោយធ្វើឲ្យការចោទប្រកាន់តំណាងសហជីពកើនដល់១៧នាក់ហើយនៅខែនេះតែមួយ។ ការចាប់ខ្លួនតំណាង ...
ម៉ិច ដារ៉ា
http://www.cambodiadailykhmer.com/news/14819/
Thousands go on strike at factories
About 5,000 workers went on strike at the M&aMp;V garMent factory in KaMpong Chhnang province yesterday, adding to the list of incidents at the factory in the past two years that has also included Mass faintings. Elsewhere, about 700 workers froM the Pine Great (CaMbodia) ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050965503/National/thousands-go-on-strike-at-factories.html
(English) More Than 1,000 Faintings Reported in Cambodian Factories This Year
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Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/faintings-08212014140815.html
Activists Stage Flash “Faint-Ins” at H&M, Gap to Protest Sweatshop Conditions
Dozens of human-rights activists are staging flash “faint-ins” at high-street retailers across Europe to illustrate the high incidence of mass fainting in Cambodia’s apparel factories. Protestors from the Clean Clothes Campaign, an alliance of organizations in 15 European countries dedicated to improving working conditions in ...
http://www.ecouterre.com/activists-stage-flash-faint-ins-at-hm-gap-to-protest-sweatshop-conditions/
Cambodia's garment workers confront multinationals
Since mid-January a group of illegally laid off Cambodian garment workers – mostly women – have been picketing the factory they worked in. Their objective was to stop the company, which closed down, owing the workers, collectively, about US$200,000 of unpaid wages, from removing the ...
Holdings draw veil over Mfone
When the owner of Kingsland garment factory fled the Kingdom last year, enough pressure was applied to its sourcing companies H&m and Walmart to persuade them through their intermediaries to compensate workers left jobless. Distance could no longer absolve them of responsibility. Just like the Kingsland ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013041865106/Business/holdings-draw-veil-over-mfone.html
Mind the wage gap
Most Mornings, garMent worker Vicheka buys food froM the street vendors outside her factory in KaMpong Chhnang province. The beef and pork dishes, she says, have a tendency to give workers a stoMach ache – a reputation forged long before Vicheka and her co-workers at ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012092858979/National-news/mind-the-wage-gap.html
Thousands block National Road Two
Thousands of workers from the macau-owned m & V International manufacturing Ltd on Wednesday blocked National Road Two to demand better working conditions. The protestors have 11 lists of demands including bonuses of 4,000 riel ($1) for food, $3 for holiday pay, and $12 for ...
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=ZDEzMTc5YjNiNTc