Maids still missing as deal with Malaysia nears

3 June 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Civil society / Government / Government services / Human rights / Informal migration for labor / Labor / Labor policy and administration / Local workers abroad / Ministries and other national bodies / Ministry of Interior / Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training / Offshore recruitment and employment / Social development
ACRA / Association of Cambodian Recruitment Agencies / Hun Sen / International Labor Organization / Job Asia / Koy Kuong / Legal Support for Children and Women / LSCW / Ly Vichuta / Malaysian aid / Memorandum of Understanding / Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Ministry of Interior / Ministry of Labor / OThsman Hassan / Ros Srey Pich / Seng Sakada / T&P recruitment agency / Tbong Khmum Province

When Ros Srey Pich was 19, she signed a contract with a recruitment agency that would send her to work as a maid in Malaysia. The recruitment agency, Job Asia, had sourced the teenager from what is now Tbong Khmum province, telling her poor family that she would work under developed-world conditions and earn decent wages that she could remit back home. However, since she flew out of Cambodia—on July 18, 2010—her family has not seen a dollar. Nor have they heard a word from her. …

 Phorn Bopha and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/maids-still-missing-as-deal-with-malaysia-nears-60302/