Police raid maid agency, push charges against others

Police said they freed one recruit from a Phnom Penh recruitment agency this weekend and were seeking to prosecute its director, adding that they were doing the same for the director of the SKMM recruitment agency, where 78 recruits were freed last week. The court has also issued an arrest warrant for the director of the controversial agency T&P, officials said. An opposition lawmaker welcomed the police initiatives but questioned why the Ministry of Labor was not leading the inspection of overseas labor agencies, which still hold thousands of female recruits in their training centers despite last week’s government ban on sending maids to Malaysia…