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Garments and textiles are the lifeblood of the Cambodian economy representing 85% of the country’s total exports — impressive for an industry that only formed in 1994 through foreign investment.
Download Cambodia’s industry profile (as at 28 June 2010).
Learn more about Cambodia at the CIA World Factbook.
Garment workers in Cambodia stitching US brands, work until they faintAlaska DispatchLast year, a strange phenomenon -- wave after wave of mass faintings in garment factories -- briefly attracted the media's gaze towards the lives of Cambodians who...
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Cambodia: garment workers making US brands stitch 'til they faintGlobalPost (blog)A Cambodian man carries an unconscious woman from a factory in Phnom Penh on October 12, 2009. Cambodia's garment industry is the impoverished nation's larges...
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Slowdown in garment exports from CambodiaFibre2fashion.comDemand by major trading partners for Cambodia's garment and footwear exports has softened this year, with US imports of garments and footwear from Cambodia growing by only 2.6% to $1.5 billi...
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European Protesters Feign Illness Over Fast Fashion's Impact on Workers in ...Truth-OutAs first reported here in April 2012, around 3,000 workers reportedly lost consciousness over the previous year in 17 separate mass-fainting incidents at 12 of C...
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Myanmar To Become The Next Low Cost Labor Producer?ValueWalkThese long dominant manufacturing powerhouses are now beginning to shift into higher-value production and research, as low-cost competition from Laos, Cambodia, and others is putting pressure ...
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New York TimesGarment industry stokes Cambodia's political growthWinnipeg Free PressThe workers, mostly women, start at 7:30 a.m. and could knock off at 4 p.m., but almost all stay for two hours' overtime. There are about 1,300 workers at the G...
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