• Overtime boycott under way

    Overtime boycott under way

    • Released Date: 25-Feb-2014

    Tue, 25 February 2014Mom KunthearA threatened overtime boycott began at many of Cambodias garment factories yesterday – but not everyone could afford to walk off the job at her shifts scheduled end.At 4pm, thousands of workers poured out of their fac

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  • Garment Workers Begin Boycott of Overtime

    Garment Workers Begin Boycott of Overtime

    • Released Date: 25-Feb-2014

    BY MECH DARA AND COLIN MEYN | FEBRUARY 25, 2014Labor unions and garment factory owners gave opposing reports of the scale of an overtime boycott that began Monday as the first phase of a nationwide labor strike planned for next month.Union leaders es

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  • Unions Set to Begin First Phase of Nationwide Strike

    • Released Date: 24-Feb-2014

    BY MECH DARA | FEBRUARY 24, 2014A coalition of 18 labor unions and associations is today set to begin the first phase of a nationwide labor strike in the garment sector by calling on workers in about 100 factories to boycott working overtime, accordi

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  • International Businesses Focusing on Cambodias Labor Situation

    International Businesses Focusing on Cambodias Labor Situation

    • Released Date: 23-Feb-2014

    Published: 23-Feb-14 09:36AM | By William E. ToddAs the ongoing political impasse continues to weigh heavily on everyones minds, I was pleased to learn that the Cambodian Peoples Party and the Cambodia National Rescue Party agreed last week on initia

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  • Govt Criticizes Media Coverage of Strike Violence

    • Released Date: 22-Feb-2014

    BY ALEX WILLEMYNS AND AUN PHEAP | FEBRUARY 22, 2014The high-ranking government officials and global clothing brand representatives who took part in a meeting in Phnom Penh on Wednesday both raised concerns about the media coverage of last months leth

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  • CINTRI boss looks to future

    CINTRI boss looks to future

    • Released Date: 21-Feb-2014

    Fri, 21 February 2014Hor KimsayEarlier this month, workers for CINTRI (Cambodia), the company contracted to pick up trash in Phnom Penh, went on strike. Though a deal to improve wages and conditions was ultimately struck, disagreements remain. The Po

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  • Hun Sen Adds Armed Forces Chiefs to Strike Committee

    • Released Date: 21-Feb-2014

    BY AUN PHEAP | FEBRUARY 21, 2014Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday appointed the chiefs of the national police, military police, and military to the governments Committee to Solve Strikes and Demonstrations of All Targets, which is tasked with deali

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  • Brands Meet With Govt Over Labor Unrest

    • Released Date: 20-Feb-2014

    BY ALEX WILLEMYNS AND AUN PHEAP | FEBRUARY 20, 2014Representatives of global clothing brands Puma, Gap and H&M met with senior government ministers in Phnom Penh on Wednesday to discuss the lethal repression of a nationwide strike of garment workers

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  • Printing Shops Refusal to Print Strike Leaflets Delays Unions

    • Released Date: 20-Feb-2014

    BY MATT BLOMBERG AND MECH DARA | FEBRUARY 20, 2014A coalition of labor unions will today begin distributing leaflets calling on supporters to attend a nationwide strike in March, two days after the planned distribution date due to the fact the majori

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  • Garment Workers See Renewed Appeal in Strike

    • Released Date: 17-Feb-2014

    Garment Workers See Renewed Appeal in StrikeBY MECH DARA AND ALEX WILLEMYNS | FEBRUARY 17, 2014The day military police armed with AK-47s shot dead five striking garment workers on Phnom Penhs Veng Sreng Street last month, Keo Pheaktra, then two month

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  • Restriction-Free Travel by Chinese a Source of Envy For North Koreans

    Restriction-Free Travel by Chinese a Source of Envy For North Koreans

    • Released Date: 13-Feb-2014

    According to recently published statistics, around 11 million foreigners visited South Korea in 2013.Of these foreign visitors, the majority was from China with about 4 million people. The number of Japanese tourists was much smaller at 2.7 million,

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  • My Family Has Been Smashed to Pieces

    My Family Has Been Smashed to Pieces

    • Released Date: 13-Feb-2014

    Eight years ago, Nian Bin, a young man from the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian was arrested for smuggling drugs and sentenced to death, in spite of his protestations that he was forced to confess through violent means during interrogation. H

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