After Escaping Thailand’s Covid-19 Surge, Returnees Find Themselves Back to Old Problems
Source: VOD Some migrant workers, returning from Thailand to escape a Covid-19 surge and joblessness there, say they are finding the transition... Read More
Gov’t requests Covid treatment for migrants
Source: The Phnom Penh Post Cambodia has requested that Thailand provide medical treatment to Cambodian migrant workers who contract Covid-19 there... Read More
Minimum wage negotiations to start at $200 a month, gov’t says 21 public holidays for 2022
Source: Cambodia Investment Review Annual minimum wage negotiations for Cambodia’s garment workers are expected to start at $200 a month. If successful... Read More
Advocates urge booster dose for garment workers
Source: CambojA Unions and civil society groups are urging the government to prioritize garment workers for a booster dose of the COVID-19... Read More
Thousands Pour Back Through Reopened Thai Border
Source: VOD Cambodian returnees from Thailand have surged since the reopening of borders on Friday, local officials said, with migrants trucked in... Read More
Cambodian migrant workers start coming home as border reopens
Source: CambojA Migrant workers have started returning to Cambodia as Thai-Cambodian border checkpoints reopened Thursday and Friday, following a two-week shutdown to... Read More
Hundreds of Migrants Return as Thai Border Reopens
Source:VOD Hundreds of migrant workers poured back into the country on Friday as its borders to Covid-19-hit Thailand reopened, and the flow... Read More
Poipet’s Border Casino Workers Are Out of Work, Out of Options
ប្រភព៖ VOD Leng Sreyneth, 25, says she doesn’t know if she’s capable of doing much more than serving food and drinks... Read More
Provinces Say They Are Prepared as Border Reopens at Midnight
Source: VOD In Oddar Meanchey, authorities have prepared 30 quarantine centers and 10 treatment centers ahead of reopening the border to Thailand... Read More
Subcontractors Say Payments Disappearing Amid Stacks of Construction Bosses
Source:VOD Chuon Vanny’s team of five workers, who lay bricks for the Royal Condominium construction in Choam Chao I commune, have all... Read More
Cambodia Closes Border Crossings as COVID-19 Crisis Strands Migrant Workers in Thailand
Source: RFA Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand on Thursday blasted Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government for ordering provinces near the Thai border... Read More
Cambodian Migrant Workers Stuck in Thailand with COVID-19 as Border Closes
Source: Cambodianess The government’s decision to close the border traps as many as 1 million Cambodians in Thailand and could lead migrant... Read More
Gov’t locks down border provinces, and announces new nationwide restrictions, amid fears of spreading Delta variant
Source: CambojA The Cambodian government announced it is locking down eight provinces along the Thai border in order to curb the spread... Read More
Up to Quarter of Returnees From Thailand Testing Positive for Covid-19
Source: VOD As much as 25 percent of migrant workers coming back from Covid-stricken Thailand are testing positive, according to provincial authorities,... Read More
Debt bondage and child labor remains stubbornly prevalent at brick kilns
Source: CambojA For more than a decade, Sopheap, 38, has worked in brick kilns — facing a seemingly endless cycle of debt. “First,... Read More
Migrants still slipping through closed Thai-Cambodian border, despite pandemic fears
Source: CambojA In April, 18-year-old Sophoth illegally crossed the Thai-Cambodian border to work at a factory. In July, he was arrested and... Read More
Human trafficking cases surge in early 2021 amid economic distress
A senior Ministry of Interior official said 85 human trafficking cases were recorded in the first quarter of this year, an increase... Read More
People smuggling on the rise along Cambodia’s border despite COVID-19 restrictions
Civil society groups have expressed concern at a reported increase in human trafficking as well as the “systematic” unlawful smuggling of people... Read More
Locked down during Cambodia’s virus outbreak, people are running out of food
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Thea is worried that he will go hungry. He hasn’t left his home in Phnom Penh since April 15,... Read More
Garment Factories Brace for Opening, or More Delays, After Lockdown Losses
Garment factories outside the strictest lockdown zones are looking to reopen with half their workforce and Covid-19 preventions as Phnom Penh eases... Read More