Outcry over abuse of workers

Outcry over abuse of workers

HANOI (DPA): In a sign of growing discontent over abusive overseas managers the official Lao Dong newspaper launched an attack yesterday against law enforcement agencies over a controversial decision to close a case of alleged labor abuses.

Liu Tien Kuang, manager of the Taiwanese-invested Hue Phong shoe factory in the Go Vap district of Ho Chi Minh City, allegedly beat and humiliated his Vietnamese employees.

An investigation began last September, but in May the prosecutor's office of Ho Chi Minh City decided that the evidence was insufficient, closed the case and returned the passport of Liu Tien Kuang, who immediately left Vietnam.

The controversy came just two weeks after another Taiwanese, 27-year-old Hsu Jui Yun, was sentenced to six months in jail for abusing workers by the People's Court in Dong Nai province, 30 kilometers north of Ho Chi Minh City.