SRP investigates labour firm

Sam Rainsy Party lawmaker Son Chhay speaks to reporters and employees of T&P Co Ltd at the company’s training centre in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district Today. (Photo by: Pha Lina)

Thursday, 10 March 2011
Thet Sambath
The Phnom Penh Post

Lawmakers from the opposition Sam Rainsy Party visited the offices of the T&P Co Ltd labour recruitment firm where a 35-year-old trainee died on Sunday and where current trainees say they are being held against their will.

Son Chhay, Mu Sochua and Ho Van met with company representatives and labour trainees to investigate claims of false imprisonment and to interview trainees who earlier this week were questioned by military police about conditions at the firm, located in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district.

Son Chhay said after the meeting that the practices of some labour firms border on human trafficking.

“They take people to the company and detain them for as much as three months, using force and intimidation,” he said.

Explosion in Thai karaoke bar kills one [Cambodian], injures nine

Nov 17, 2007
DPA

Bangkok - An explosion at a karaoke bar in Samut Prakan, an industrial suburb of Bangkok, killed one man and injured nine other people, news reports said Saturday.

The blast occurred Friday night at the Nakon Phanom Girls Bar in Samut Prakan, a province neighbouring the capital that is notorious for its congestion and factories employing cheap labour, said The Nation online news service.

Police said the man killed by the blast was a Cambodian labourer.

Friends of the victim claimed he had pulled out a grenade to show off in the bar, but the pin fell out, detonating the device.