Date of publication: October 23, 2009
Source: Radio Free Asia
Author: Josh Lipes
Cambodia vows to crack down on safety violations by factory owners.
Cambodian workers leave after their shift at a garment factory in Phnom Penh on July 5, 2008.
PNHOM PENH—Officials have vowed to crack down on safety violations that endanger factory workers after toxic fumes in a garment factory in Cambodia’s capital sickened hundreds of workers.
The Cambodian Ministry of Labor & Vocational Training allowed World Best Cambodia Co. Ltd. Garment Factory to reopen at its Phnom Penh factory Oct. 14 after more than 400 workers fainted days earlier from inhaling a pesticide...