News Forum - Cambodia casino unpaid workers swim home to Vietnam

[Thaiger]

In Cambodia, about 40 Vietnamese workers fled alleged slave labour conditions in a casino, swimming to freedom across the border. The staff fled the Golden Phoenix Entertainment Casino, located in the border province of Kandal in Cambodia, making a daring escape past security and through a river to reach freedom in Vietnam. The few dozen Vietnamese employees said they were forced into unpaid work, tricked by the casino into working 14 hours per day without compensation, according to the Interior Minister of Cambodia. “These people might have been here working illegally. They were promised salaries, but they did not get […]

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[Giltee]

I’d like to see Cambodia’s Hun Sen shut the casinos down in the Cambodian state of China but he’d be too scared tho against the CCP because he owes them too much money. They’re cesspits of Chinese criminals and too many brown envelopes go to Khmer officials for them to be slightly interested in shutting down their golden goose. 

[palooka]

Cambodia starting to get a very bad image, thanks to the Chinese friends of Hun Sen.

[Noble_Design]

2 hours ago, palooka said:

Cambodia starting to get a very bad image, thanks to the Chinese friends of Hun Sen.

Can't be worse than Pol Pot though. 

[DesperateOldHand]

2 hours ago, palooka said:

Cambodia starting to get a very bad image, thanks to the Chinese friends of Hun Sen.

Time to shut down Hun Sen and friends. 

Revolution is in the fold.

[Noble_Design]

6 minutes ago, DesperateOldHand said:

Time to shut down Hun Sen and friends. 

Revolution is in the fold.

LOL revolution will only happen if the people are poor, don't have enough to eat, oppressed etc but with all these casinos the Cambodian people are getting jobs, more prosperous, infrastructures are improving - what is there to revolt about?

[Chaimai]

11 hours ago, DesperateOldHand said:

Time to shut down Hun Sen and friends. 

Revolution is in the fold.

 

 

Not a cat in Hell's chance.

 

 

See what happened to the opposition party.

 

 

Hun Sen is an old school dictator and a few pitchforks won't deter him.

[Mohandas]

21 hours ago, Noble_Design said:

Can't be worse than Pol Pot though. 

....and the Francophones want their colonies back. 

The secret work of Pol Pot.

[Manu]

23 hours ago, Noble_Design said:

but with all these casinos the Cambodian people are getting jobs, more prosperous, infrastructures are improving - what is there to revolt about?

Only in an ideal World... But is there an ideal World out there?

https://thediplomat.com/2022/07/foreign-casinos-have-been-a-disaster-for-cambodia/

To be honest, as if it was not obvious from the start it would go that way in Cambodia...