The traffic of Phnom Penh Autonomous Port increased 40.4 percent during the first five months of 2010, compared with the same period of last year. The increased is driven by activities of main sectors in Cambodian economy such as garment industry and agriculture sector. Eang Veng Sun, the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port’s deputy director general, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]