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Rainsy Asks EU to Cut Garment Imports from Cambodia.

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Khmer Times/Taing Vida Monday, 18 July 2016
Rainsy Asks EU to Cut Imports
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has asked the European Union (EU) to decrease imports of clothing from Cambodia in an effort to put economic pressure on the government into respecting human rights and freedom of speech, saying he believed the act would not affect workers.

Video footage of an EU parliamentary meeting on July 13, which was posted to Facebook on Saturday evening, showed Mr. Rainsy, who was speaking in French, say the garment industry’s relationship to Europe was crucial to Cambodia, as more than half of Cambodia’s exports were sent to EU member states.

He added that investors and big corporations were profiting off the back of workers only to use the money they made to bribe the government for better export deals.

Mr. Rainsy, president of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), attempted to head off criticism of the idea, saying he did not think an EU slowdown in garment imports from Cambodia would affect average citizens.

The businesspeople bribing the government to get their products in and out of Cambodia would be hit the hardest, he said.
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This guy is either an idiot of full of shit. How could a decline in exports not harm employees? And if his target is the gov't why not ban the import (to Cambodia) of goods only the elites use such as luxury goods, fancy cars, etc?
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ali baba wrote:This guy is either an idiot of full of shit. How could a decline in exports not harm employees? And if his target is the gov't why not ban the import (to Cambodia) of goods only the elites use such as luxury goods, fancy cars, etc?
I agreed, all politicians are full of shit, now this chicken shit wants other government to fight the battle for him n in the process harm khmers who supported this chicken shit, come back n be a martyr like aung sng suu kyi
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So hurting the lowly-paid garment workers is a good idea?

From time to time the employers howl that the unfavourable production conditions here (i.e. costs other than wages)
mean that they are competing unfavourably with manufacturers in Bangladesh and Indonesia.

The man is beneath contempt; all he ever does is whimper
about the wicked Vietnamese and now THIS idiocy!
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genius move by an expat
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Unions Blast Rainsy Over Remarks on EU Garment Trade
Pro-government unions have threatened mass protests against the opposition CNRP after party leader Sam Rainsy called on the E.U. to increase pressure on the Cambodian government by targeting the country’s economy.
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unio ... de-115659/
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Never heard of a union protesting an opposition political party before.

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my younger Khmer friends inform me that their parents think if cnrp got into power all the young men would be drafted and sent to fight the youn
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Boycotts of South Africa hurt poor South Africans of all races - layoffs and unemployment and hardship.

The BDS movement has hurt Palestinians working in factories in the West Bank - layoffs and unemployment and hardship.

Now this posturing ninny wants to hurt the working poor in the country he professes to love
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The opposition in SA and Palestine support(ed) the boycotts and divestments. Do any of the local unions support immolating themselves for run away Rainsy?
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