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Article

8 Jul 2013

Author:
Shane Worrell, Phnom Penh Post (Cambodia)

Asics pays out victims’ families [Cambodia]

Japanese footwear company Asics has agreed to pay the families of two factory workers killed in the Wing Star shoes ceiling collapse on May 16 an undisclosed but “sizeable” amount of compensation, the company and labour groups said...While announcing the payouts – possibly tens of thousands of dollars – Asics Corporation senior executive officer Ron Pietersen also revealed to the Post that a birth certificate listed victim Kim Dany as being only 13 years old, not 15...Pietersen, whose company is the sole buyer from the Wing Star factory in Kampong Speu, called on the government to also “take responsibility” by paying the families of Dany and Rim Roeun, 22, any money they are entitled to under the National Social Security Fund.