28 August 2014, The Cambodia Daily A group of 50 migrant workers on Wednesday protested outside a branch of a recruitment agency in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district that they say duped them out of $260 they paid for a guarantee of employment in Thailand. T... read more
22 August 2014, The Phnom Penh Post Nearly 200 Cambodian migrant workers who were scammed by their broker and then abandoned south of Bangkok earlier this week are among the latest victims falling between the cracks of an ill-defined labour registration s... read more
1 August 2014, Bangkok Post The Labour Ministry is ready to import Bangladeshi labourers to work in the fishing industry if there is still a worker shortage following registrations of migrant workers from three neighbouring countries. Permanent secretary ... read more
29 July 2014, The Cambodia Daily Nang Kumnour, a 25-year-old migrant worker who tried to enter Thailand last week, is too embarrassed to return home. A former construction worker in Thailand, Ms. Kumnour was duped out of $200 when a recruitment agency pro... read more
17 July 2014, Laignee Barron, Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan, The Phnom Penh Post Almost all of the men from Banteay Chhmar commune in Banteay Meanchey province are gone, swept back over the border to Thailand even more suddenly than their brief homecoming... read more
Chhay Channyda, The Phnom Penh Post, 25 June 2014 The government yesterday unveiled new rules that govern workers travelling abroad, among them a cap on the amount that they can be charged for the necessary documents. In addition to newly subsidised $4 pa... read more
Michelle Tolson, AsianCorrespondent.com, 3 July 2014 In the dusty border town of Poipet, things have quieted down compared to the previous weeks’ onslaught of trucks ferrying Cambodian migrant workers “voluntarily” back from Thailand. Ms. Pheap, a s... read more
16 June 2014, The Irrawaddy CHIANG MAI — A heavy crackdown on undocumented migrants in Thailand has so far mostly targeted Cambodian workers, although there have been frequent reports of arrests of Burmese workers, according to organizations working wit... read more
ILO Asia-Pacific Working Paper Series, October 2013 Authors: Max Tunon & Khleang Rim ABSTRACT It is projected that Cambodia’s labour force will grow by 22 per cent between 2007 and 2015. An estimated 250,000 to 300,000 new young workers are entering... read more