Workers on strike faces threats of hunger as police and security guards drastically imposed blockade of food supplies to the workers' picket line inside the compound of the Cavite Export Processing Zone (CEPZ) in Rosario, Cavite.

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By Marcus Kable of The Associated Press and Stacey Roberts of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. found a higher rate of severe violations at foreign factories last year as the company stepped up inspections for labor and environmental standards in more than 60 countries where it buys clothes, toys, shoes and other products, it said in a report.

With negotiation for their demands for improved benefit stalled, union members of a Korean-owned garment factory gets the backing of two international labor groups.

Now labor rights advocates the International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF) in the US and the Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN) in Canada have already express concern with the plight of workers on protests at Chong Won Fashion Inc. (CWFI) operating inside the Cavite Export Processing Zone (CEPZ).

Several international clothing manufacturers have demanded Cambodia investigate the recent murder of a top labour leader, saying swift justice was key to their continued presence in the country's key garment sector.

“We are quite concerned about what appears to be a pattern of violence against union leaders in the country,” said a letter received Wednesday from labels Eddie Bauer, Gap, H&M Hennes and Mauritz, Liz Claiborne and Phillips-Van Heusen...