NagaWorld Strikers Instructed to Stay Home for 7 Days
More than 200 protesting casino workers were tested for Covid-19 Saturday evening and told to self-isolate for seven days even if they were negative.
Michael Dickison Feb 5, 7:59 pm
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More than 200 protesting casino workers were tested for Covid-19 Saturday evening and told to self-isolate for seven days even if they were negative.
Residents of a borey gated housing development near the Phnom Penh airport wake up at night to see if they have running water. Since last month, they’ve had little to no water during the day, so they use a pump at night to fill buckets to use in the morning.
International labor groups criticized NagaWorld’s “long-standing failure” to respect workers’ rights and authorities’ “undue interference” of a legitimate strike, as one representative said the groups would bring the dispute before the ILO and Asean, and affiliated workers overseas would also look to exert pressure.
While a government news agency touted Prime Minister Hun Sen’s visit to Myanmar, Singaporean and Malaysian officials were unsettled by the Asean chair’s interaction with the military regime.
Casino workers returned to protest outside NagaWorld 1 on Sunday but have been blocked by local authorities who have barricaded all streets leading to the casino.
AirAsia announced on Thursday it would resume flights to Cambodia in January, but Phnom Penh’s airport operator expects arrivals in 2022 to be “far from the prepandemic level of traffic of 2019.”
The Cambodian Health Ministry confirmed the first official case of Omicron variant late Tuesday with the mutated virus found in a passenger arriving from Ghana on Sunday.
The World Health Organization said on Friday it was seeing an increase in Covid-19 cases, especially in Europe, and that countries needed to be vigilant and learn to live with the virus, commending Cambodia’s approach toward a reopening.
Advocates from across Southeast Asia on Tuesday alleged social media complicity in state-sponsored propaganda, harassment of activists and antidemocratic censorship as they established a regional civil-society coalition to press for accountability.
Hun Sen launched into a tirade on Sunday against alleged “anarchic deforestation” along the Tonle Sap lake, even ordering the use of the “infantry, navy, and helicopters” to crackdown on land grabbing and encroachment.
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