DAP: The breaking news in Cambodia: “90 per cent of Cambodian garment workers faint due to food and weak health, officials said” plus 9 more

CAMBODIA, PHNOM PENH, Nov 16, 2011-Cambodia's ministry of labor said the garment workers in the country fainted due to eating no protein food that made weak wealth. But the union said garment workers fainted due to low salary and poor atmosphere at the factories.

Mam Vanak, secretary of state for labor ministry said on Nov 15 at ILO office: "the fainting is not from environment," "Workers are trying to save much money and they do not care much about their health. "He said. Kim Heng, a representative of garment worker disagreed with Mam's comment. She said: "chemical substance from clothes and fabric is one core thing which made workers faint. And the atmosphere at the factory is poor and the factory should be a good environment".  "Workers earned Low salary and worked over time to gain more money. These matters caused fainting." She stated.

10 months of 201, 20,000 workers lost consciousness.  The Cambodia's garment industry earned about 3.4 billion US dollar so far this year while worker earned from $60 salary for minimum wage. If they worked over time, they could earn maximum salary of $120. But we look back to daily food, they spend at least one dollar per day.  What kind of food do they eat to have calories for their health?  Both low salary and bad atmosphere are easy things to identity of fainting.

CAMBODIA, PHNOM PENH, Nov 16, 2011-Cambodian Supreme Court on Wednesday delayed the announcement of verdict for one million embezzlement's case which was filed by Chea Chamroeun, rector of Poly-technical Chea Chamreoun University in Phnom Penh and a lawmaker from ruling Cambodian People Party.

Chea filed complaint with the courts with accusation of Ieng Rithy, a market developer after she cheated his family over the money of 1,090,500 dollars. Chea also asked the defendant to pay the compensation of $400,000. The two lower courts found Rithy guilty for embezzlement case and using fake document. Rithy refused the charge of using fake document and she could not have ability to borrow the money of one million dollars from anybody.  But she confessed that she had received the money of about $450,000 from Chap Boravy, plaintiff.

Presiding judge Khim Bonn said the verdict will be released on November 23, 2011.

Chea said: Madam Rithy borrowed money from his wife to invest market development project in some places in the country.  Prosecutor charged Rithy of using fake document but he dropped the charge of embezzlement.

HANOI, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- The Vietnam-China Trade Fair 2011 wrapped up in Vietnam's northern Lao Cai province on Wednesday after one week opening, which was successful in further promoting cooperation between the two countries, remarked organizers.

The fair, being the biggest event of this kind ever held, attracted nearly 300 companies and organizations from the two countries with more than 700 booths, of which there were 112 Chinese companies with 250 booths.

Products on display included handicraft articles, electric and electronic appliances, machines and equipment, chemicals, garments, household utensils, farming products, wood-based items and pharmaceutical products.

Chinese companies displayed many new products at the fair, such as machines used in farming work, in mining exploration and processing, accessories for tourist trips. Meanwhile, Vietnamese companies showcased special agricultural products, seafood products, plus tourism promotion events and an automobile show.

The fair attracted more than 120,000 visitors, and goods purchase turnover reached over 75 billion Vietnamese dong (3.6 million U.S. dollars). During the one-week fair, many economic contracts were signed, worth 201 million U.S. dollars, reported the organizers.

A seminar was also held on cooperation for development between Vietnam and China's Yunnan province on the sidelines of the show.

HONG KONG, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong's Center for Food Safety (CFS) Wednesday announced that no A/H1N1 influenza viruses were detected in samples from pigs taken during August to mid October.

The results reported were under a regular influenza virus surveillance program conducted by the University of Hong Kong (HKU) at the Sheung Shui Slaughterhouse. Among some 1,000 samples tested, no A/H1N1 virus was detected. However, 15 samples were found to contain a virus that was essentially a swine influenza H3N2 virus but had picked up some genes of human swine influenza virus.

The same virus was also found in the last round of surveillance program for May to July.

The HKU expert in charge of the surveillance program Professor JSM Peiris reiterated that this swine influenza H3N2 virus, which carried the genes of the A/H1N1 virus, is unlikely to cause any major human health risk or problems in food safety.

A spokesman for the CFS said that the CFS would continue to monitor reports of the program and make announcements on a regular basis.

"Results will be announced immediately if there are significant public health impacts," he said.

The CFS has been liaising closely with the Mainland authorities on any abnormal situation in the Mainland farms supplying live pigs to Hong Kong and farm inspection would be stepped up when necessary.

Under the surveillance program, the CFS has been helping the HKU researchers by collecting blood, tracheal and nasal swabs from pigs at the Sheung Shui Slaughterhouse twice a month.

BANGKOK, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- About 1.5 million letters and packages could not be delivered after 38 of 1,200 post offices were submerged by floods, English website the Nation quoted Thailand Post executive as saying on Wednesday.

Although the state-run company has continued to operate as usual, postal carriers can not make their delivery in deeply flooded areas. The parcels will be delivered when the flood subsides, said Piyawat Mahapauraya, senior executive vice president.

Thailand Post normally receives and delivers about five million parcels nationwide per day.

The inundation caused by heavy monsoon rains and back-to-back tropical storms has lashed 64 out of 77 provinces across the country since late July.

Floods have subsided most of the areas but still prevails in 20 provinces in central and northeastern region, including capital Bangkok city. Over a thousand highways and rural roads across the country have been damaged.

COLOMBO, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka's public investment will reach 21 billion U.S. dollars within the next five years to push the country's post-war development, said the country's Central Bank on Wednesday.

"We are hoping to invest 4.43 billion U.S. dollars in 2012 and 5.05 billion U.S. dollars in 2013. This will hit a peak of 5.76 billion U.S. dollars and 6.53 billion dollars in 2014 and 2015 respectively," Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivaard Cabraal told Xinhua in a telephone interview.

Since the end of a three decade conflict in 2009 Sri Lanka's 50 billion dollar economy has been booming with 8 percent growth.

During the past two years, the government has invested over 6 billion U.S. dollars in key infrastructure projects to spearhead development

The bulk of the funding comes from China, which has given loans to build highways, a coal power plant and harbor in the Indian Ocean island.

ISLAMABAD, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- At least 20 militants were killed in clashes with the security forces in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of Kurram Agency which borders the eastern side of Afghanistan on Wednesday, reported local media.

Local Urdu TV channel Duniya quoted anonymous security officials as saying that one troop was also killed and another was three injured in the clashes.

The clashes broke out when a group of militants in unknown number launched an attack on an army checkpost in the Murghan area of east Kurram Agency, said the report, adding that the army fought back in retaliation with the help of gunship helicopters.

Four militant hideouts were also destroyed in the fight, it said.

The report did not say which group these militants belonged to.

On Tuesday, in the neighboring tribal area of Orakzai, 16 militants were killed and 12 others were injured in an operation launched by the Pakistani army in the Dabori area, in which six militant hideouts were also destroyed.

BANGKOK, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- A total of 564 people were confirmed dead and two missing during the more than three-month flooding, which is the worst in over 50 years, Thai Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department reported Wednesday.

Flooding situation still prevails in 20 provinces, including capital Bangkok and the central and northeastern region, while 44 other provinces are on the way of restoring, said the report. Some 5.3 million residents or nearly 2 million households are still suffering, according to the report.

In Bangkok, 27 communities in 13 districts have been affected by floods.

The inundation caused by heavy monsoon rains and back-to-back tropical storms has lashed 64 out of 77 provinces across the country since late July, affecting more than 13 million, or one in every five Thais. Tens of thousands of manufactures were swamped, putting over a million of employees at the risk of losing their jobs and causing about 4.5 billion U.S. dollars worth of loss, let alone the economic damage which was expected to be between 23 billion to 28 billion U.S. dollars.

ISLAMABAD, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- At least 20 militants were killed in clashes with the security forces in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of Kurram Agency which borders Afghanistan on Wednesday, reported local Urdu TV Duniya, adding that one troop was also killed and another was injured in the clashes.

ANKARA, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- At least seven people were killed and 25 others injured in a traffic accident in the western Turkish province of Afyonkarahisar on Tuesday, local newspaper Today's Zaman reported Wednesday.

Afyonkarahisar Governor Irfan Balkanlioglu was quoted as saying that four vehicles had collided, leaving seven people dead and 25 others injured.

The accident occurred on the Afyonkarahisar-Konya highway when two passenger buses crashed into two trucks, said the report, adding that the injured were rushed to hospitals nearby for medical treatment.