Yet another march by the SL Garment factory workers who are on a strike since the month of August for a rise in wages. It turned very ugly this morning. Some members of the riot police forces who stopped the demonstrators at the Stung Meanchey bridge opened fire with their handgun when trying to push […]
Both the SL Garment factory and the Boeung Kak lake communities held a demonstration today. The first are locked into an endless conflict with their direction about wages and working conditions, the second are stuck into a relentless fight to see their fellow land rights activist Yorm Bopha, whom they consider unjustly imprisoned, walk free. […]
Ahead of a planned 3-day mass demonstration of the opposition CNRP, the cambodian riot police held a demonstration of force at Freedom Park, the area usually assigned by the authorities for demonstrations. This left the Grassroots People’s School of Democracy no alternative but to organise their event with discussions about the cambodian constitution and their […]
A 6-hour long speech about the reforms which will be undertaken during his 5-year long mandate by Mr. Hun Sen, the new Cambodian Prime Minister who is the same as 28 years ago, have not yet started to come into effect. Some 2000 to 3000 workers from SL Garment Processing (Cambodia) Ltd., still not satisfied […]
My very public exhibition on the (outside) walls of the French Embassy on Monivong Boulevard (Phnom Penh) is up for a few more days. The walls will return to white after June 30th. Part of the work was commissioned by the Agence Française de Développement which partly finances the ‘Better Factories Cambodia’ program implemented by […]
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…