Part of a storage area in the newly built Wing Star factory collapsed a few hours ago in Kompong Speu, some 50 Km from Phnom Penh, likely because of an overload. As of 11:00 AM 2 people were declared dead. The factory employs 8,000 workers who make sports shoes. Rescue teams arrived fairly quickly on [...]
I am working on ‘A Fine Thead’, my next ebook about the garment industry workers which hopefully will be released in time for the opening of an exhibition on the walls of the French Embassy in Phnom Penh at the end of May. Meanwhile ‘Same Same‘, ‘Royal Silence‘ and ‘30 Years for a Trial‘ are [...]
Some 3000 factory workers, a string of tuk-tuks and a group from Boeung Kak Lake celebrated Labour Day in phnom Penh, marching from Wat Phnom to the National Assembly. More pictures here, here and here…
Honouring the Cambodian garment factory worker… Here, here and a multimedia here…
The touring exhibition about the achievements of the Agence Française de Développement starts in Lyon this Friday. If you are in the area: it is in the open air, it is for free… And if you could take some pictures of the set up and send them to me? Thanks… See the pictures on my [...]
A multimedia presentation of the story ‘Cambodia: Better Factories’ is available on Youtube… So, yes, from time to time I do shoot stills that are moving… Check it out here: Better Factories
So, finally… I think I can go public with it… Here are the pictures of the new story on the ‘Better Factories‘ program, organised by ILO, partly financed by AFD… The story is part of an open-air exhibition which will tour France at the following places at the following dates… BORDEAUX , 21 – 29 [...]
The workers from the (accidentally) burned down garment factory June in Phnom Penh have been waiting for hours outside the prison to see their union representative released. She was arrested during a scuffle with the police on sunday, when the workers were demonstrating in front of the factory to obtain a little more severance pay [...]
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