"NCCT investigating and closing down factories over child labour", 23 May 2018

...[F]actories are being investigated, and some shut down, for employing children illegally.

The report comes months after rights group Licadho released findings showing the prevalence of debt bondage and child labour at brick kilns....

"The Ministry of Labour has inspected enterprises and institutions to check working conditions of young workers and to prevent child labour, taking firm action against any enterprises and institutions that have violated the law, and also removing 240 children from heavy labour," including from brick factories, Chou Bun Eng, permanent vice chair of the NCCT....

...Licadho's senior investigator Am Sam Ath said: "In the past we have received information that children have been injured or died at brick factories . . . we have seen some owners of the factories stop using children, but others continue to allow children to work at their factories.