“It’s so hot,” said Phan Oem, 53, who started working there shortly after the factory opened in 2012. “I’m sweaty. It’s too hot.” Workers have fainted for years inside Cambodia’s ...

With the opening of its sixth cement factory, Cambodia has eliminated the need to import cement. The new facility, in Kampong ...

Following mediation by the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training on Tuesday, May 20, the Color Star (Cambodia) Product Co., Ltd. factory has pledged to provide compensation to workers who do not ...

She started working in the factory shortly after it opened in 2012.Sarahbeth Maney/ProPublica Workers have fainted for years inside Cambodia’s garment factories, where more than 57,000 people ...

And those working conditions are already challenging. The minimum wage for one of Cambodia’s 1 million garment workers (from a total population of 16 million) is just US$208 per month.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet said here on Thursday that the Sihanoukville Special Economy Zone (SSEZ) has not ...

The resident, who reported speaking to workers involved in the ... contained no harmful dioxins, the new factory would contribute significantly to Cambodia carbon dioxide emissions, even as ...

Factory workers will likely feel the impact directly ... ProPublica reported this month on a former Nike factory in Cambodia where most employees made the minimum wage — about $1 per hour.

Arun Seang* works six days a week in a garment factory in Phnom Penh. In the past when he needed time off to go to the HIV ...

and work is underway to prepare the land for construction," said Sun Chanthol, first vice-president of the Council for the Development of Cambodia. Chanthol said the factory's proximity to the ...