Boss commits royal blunder

A Chinese factory manager sparked a near-riot in Phnom Penh yesterday morning after publicly destroying two photos of the late King Father in front of hundreds of workers. More than a thousand employees of the Top World garment factory launched an immediate strike, and threatened to march from the Meanchey district factory to the Royal Palace before being diverted by police who brought the manager, Wang Xiao Jiao, to the Phnom Penh Municipal Police headquarters for questioning. … According to accounts from workers, monitors, factory officials and authorities, Xiao Jiao, an operations manager at Top World Garment, grabbed the photos from a worker who had been showing them to friends outside the factory gates. Annoyed by the distraction the photos had been causing, Xiao Jiao then tore them up and threw them aside, enraging those who had witnessed the scene.  …. The response was instantaneous. Employees stopped working and gathered in front of the factory to demand an apology to the late king, said Keo Chenda, a worker representative.  …

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