Some 1,000 workers of Chinese-owned Y&W Garment in Phnom Penh continue to block the road in protest, demanding that the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training pay “repair of damage” on top of compensation, seeing that the owner ran away. Six factories from Special Economic Zone of Royal Group along national road 4 in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district immediately recruited 340 workers of Y &W factory to work in the factories.
About 40 Boeung Tamok community residents marched from the night market to the Royal Palace to petition the King to intervene in the Boeung Tamok development, which has affected their homes and livelihoods.
About 100 villagers in northern Cambodia who were evicted from their homes are hiding in the forest, sleeping in plastic tents and catching fish to survive, because they are afraid they will be arrested. Several homes were burned down and about 40 villagers were arrested after police used tear gas to disperse about 130 land dispute protesters who tried to stop the destruction of homes. Issuing a clarification on the suicide of a woman in Preah Vihear, the provincial administration said that she took the extreme step due to family dispute and not because her land was confiscated, as alleged by some on social media.
More than 2,000 workers of R.G Footwear in Kandal province are worried about losing their jobs after the factory they worked in was destroyed by fire on Tuesday. They hope that the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training will find a solution so that they have a job regardless of the factory’s continuity.
