Cambodia’s textile decreased 21 percent
The global economic recession is still plaguing Cambodia’s garment industries, which is the nation’s main revenues and created jobs for Cambodian people from different provinces. During the last 9 months from January to September 2009, garment export decreased 21.66 percent, compared with the same period of 2008.
The Ministry of Commerce released data; it shows that [...]
Garment workers demand for full pay
Shuttered Tack Fat factory’s workers protested in front of the Ministry of Labor and National Assembly Monday to demand garment factory to pay them back.
The factory suspended its operation on October 08, leaving some 1,800 employees jobless in the period of two months. Reportedly, workers were to receive $12 a month.
The Post quoted Vayu Vavadhana, [...]
Cambodia’s Garment Workers Hit by Recession
Over the last decade economic growth has helped lift Cambodia out of its poverty. The signs were everywhere; bustling construction sites around Phnom Penh ; young workers filing into factories, filling orders for eager clients abroad.
More than 400,000 jobs in the textile industry fuelled the hopes of many young women whose earnings in the city [...]