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Corruption worse than in Bangladesh: NGO

12 June 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Economy and commerce / Exports / Safety and health at work / Trade
ACILS / American Center for International Labor Solidarity / Bangladesh / Better Factories Cambodia / BFC / Bribery / collapse / construction / Corruption / Dave Welsh / Factories / factory ceiling collapse / Factory collapse / Footwear / Garment factories / garment sector / garment workers / garments / health and safety / illegal construction / International Labour Organization / International Labour Organization technical specialist / International NGOs / Jason Judd / labor / Leng Tong / Ministry of Labour / Ministry of Labour’s occupational health and safety department director / NGOs / nongovernmental organizations / Pakistan / payments / Rana Plaza / Rana Plaza factory / Shoe factory / shoes / TI / Transparency International / Wing Star factory / Wing Star Shoes Co Ltd / Wing Star Shoes factory / workers / working conditions

In a country where corruption is as rife as it is in Cambodia, global brands must work with governments to ensure garment factories are safe and working conditions legal, international NGO Transparency International (TI) said yesterday. In Cambodia, where two workers were killed when a ceiling ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061266221/National/corruption-worse-than-in-bangladesh-ngo.html

Workers not underage, factory says

30 May 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Development policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources
ASICS / Asics supplier / ceiling collapse / Chan Kosal / child labor / factory / factory ceiling collapse / Factory collapse / factory ownership / factory representative Chan Kosal / Garment factories / Garment Industry / garments / illegal workers / Kampong Speu / Kampong Speu Province / labor / labor law / New Star factory / Phnom Penh / Preah Sihanouk / Preah Sihanouk Province / Shoe factories / shoes / Underage Workers / Wing Star Shoes / Wing Star Shoes factory / Ying Dong Shoes / Ying Dong Shoes Factory

A Ying Dong Shoes representative yesterday denied claims his factory employs workers as young as 13 and shares an owner with Wing Star Shoes, where two died in a ceiling collapse on May 16. Chan Kosal, a representative of Ying Dong, a supplier to Asics, said ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013053065943/National/workers-not-underage-factory-says.html

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