Cambodia bans citizens from working as maids in Malaysia

10/14/2011
Reuters

PHNOM PENH — Cambodia has banned its citizens from going to work in Malaysia as maids, its prime minister said on Friday, following a series of horrific reports of beatings and rapes.

The order follows a similar ban imposed by Indonesia on its citizens from taking new jobs as domestic workers in Malaysia, where maids are common in middle-class households, thanks in part to a large migrant labor pool.

"I would like to congratulate the prime minister for the suspension," Cambodia opposition lawmaker Mu Sochua of the Sam Rainsy Party told Reuters after the decision by Prime Minister Hun Sen.

Cambodia's Community Legal Education Center, which is working with abused domestic workers, said there had been reports of three maids who were killed in Malaysia, and two were raped and kept in isolation, their passports held from them.

Cambodian worker crushed to death (in Malaysia)

Monday October 22, 2007
By ROSLINA MOHAMAD
The Star (Malaysia)

KUANTAN: A Cambodian worker was crushed to death after his fingers got caught in a roller belt at a rubber factory in Bentong on Sunday.

According to state deputy CID chief (II) Dept Supt Haris Daud, the incident occurred at about 6am in a factory in Benus when Roset Math, 27, was operating the machine.

"While manning the roller belt, Roset's fingers got caught in the machine and he could not free himself.

"The right upper part of his body and his head were crushed by the machine,'' he said at his office here Monday.

Roset was rushed to the Bentong Hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival, DSP Haris added.

His body was later flown back to Cambodia, he said.