Low Economic Prospects Forcing Cambodians to Enter Thailand Despite Border Closure
PHNOM PENH — Interior Ministry figures show that around 100 Cambodian migrant workers were found attempting to return to Thailand despite the... Read More
Closed borders give rise to trafficking in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia is facing a new wave of human trafficking as desperate workers use illegal means to cross closed borders in... Read More
Cambodia’s PM Hun Sen Reopens Border to Cambodians Stranded Abroad Due to Pandemic
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday announced that he was reopening the country’s borders to Cambodian nationals who have been living... Read More
Lenders’ ‘Case-by-Case’ Debt Relief Too Slow, Civil Society Groups Say
Weeks after the National Bank suggested financial institutions cut struggling borrowers a break, microlenders say they are relieving customers affected by the... Read More
Malaysia to test Cambodians for coronavirus before deporting them
The government has requested Malaysia to test 73 Cambodians, who have served out their jail terms and 149 fishermen arrested for illegal... Read More
Cambodian Migrant Workers Are Prohibited from Returning to their Jobs Abroad
PHNOM PENH—The Ministry of Interior Wednesday (April 22) said that the 85,000 or so Cambodian migrant workers who have returned to Cambodia... Read More
Sar Kheng: All Migrant Workers Cleared of COVID-19, But no Incomes
PHNOM PENH — Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Wednesday suggested that there were no positive cases of the novel coronavirus among the... Read More
As Loan Payments Approach, Indebted Migrant Workers Face Economic Uncertainty
TAKEO PROVINCE, CAMBODIA — Min Sarun and Neang Chantrea reached the Ban Laem border checkpoint in Chanthaburi, Thailand, on the morning of... Read More
Cambodians in Malaysia Plead With PM Hun Sen to Allow Their Return, Citing Financial Hardship
Some 150 Cambodian migrant workers and students on Wednesday urged their government to allow them to return home from Malaysia, where they... Read More
Returnees a concern: WHO
The World Health Organization has expressed its concern over an influx of migrant workers from Thailand, saying it might lead to cluster... Read More
Cambodian migrant workers return home to bleak prospects
or the past couple of years Sun Chen, 23, worked at a second-hand shoe store in Longkluor market in Thailand, just across... Read More
Japan requested to recruit 100,000 for skilled workforce
Minister of Labour and Vocational Training, Ith Sam Heng, has asked Japan to increase the number of Cambodian workers to 100,000 in... Read More
Four more get Covid-19, 15,000 migrants tracked
THE Ministry of Health on Tuesday night confirmed four new coronavirus infections, bringing the total to 91. The four are among passengers... Read More
Unemployed Southeast Asian Migrants in Thailand Struggle as COVID-19 Shuts Down Economy
As Thailand’s economy shuts down due to government efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus, migrant workers from neighboring Southeast Asian... Read More
Village lockdowns mulled if returning workers have COVID-19
Authorities are in the process of locating and identifying the majority of about 15,000 migrant workers who fled back to the Kingdom... Read More
Migrant Workers Return Home Amid Covid-19 Fears, Border Closures
Thousands of migrant workers from Thailand and Vietnam returned to Cambodia in the last week, as governments closed borders in an effort... Read More
Drop in illegal job moves by migrants in Japan
“The problem may be resolved if the Cambodian government modifies their status from trainees to full-time employees or full-time workers after a specific period of time, perhaps six months,”
Cambodian Migrant Workers Dream of Opportunities at Home
Most migrant workers will be unemployed on their return to their home country because of a lack of job opportunities and programs to get people back into work.
Pitfalls for Hong Kong maid program
They need to be well-trained in Chinese and English languages so they understand the local culture. Working in Hong Kong is generally better than in Malaysia.
The Cambodian maid abused and treated as a slave for 13 years in Saudi Arabia
Thirteen years ago, two men came to Eng Pov’s village in Tbong Khmum province and knocked on her door. Pov, then either 20 or 21, doesn’t remember their names.