Maids ban flouted, rights group claims

Despite Prime Minister Hun Sen’s indefinite ban on sending Cambodian maids to Malaysia, two recruitment agencies continued to send maids there yesterday, according to rights group Licadho… Recruitment agency Top Manpower put seven recruits on Air Asia flight AK 273 to Kuala Lumpur yesterday morning, while ILS Co Ltd put 18 women on board the flight, according to Licadho, whose staff talked to the workers at Phnom Penh International Airport. Staff from the two agencies reportedly told Licadho that recruits who were in training programs were exempt from the ban, as they had already signed contracts…