The silk industry of Cambodia is in rapid decline due to limited domestic supply of silk yarn and high cost of imported raw materials. According to the latest data released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)-Cambodia, the ...
Tags: silk industry, silk yarn, raw materials
The International Labour Organization’s (ILO’s) Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) monitoring program is losing its relevance and effectiveness in ensuring better work and wage conditions, especially to garment workers, says a ...
Tags: garment workers, Apparel, garment
Consumers and activists across Europe are mobilizing on the streets and on social media this week to ask major high street fashion brands to support a minimum wage increase for garment workers in Cambodia. To bring the shocking reality of ...
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Cambodian garment industry is attracting huge foreign investments due to tax incentives and duty free access to world’s major markets like the US and the UK. In a conversation with fibre2fashion, the business development manager of ...
Tags: garment sector, garment industry, Garment Manufacturers
Xinhua reported that a Cambodian company and a Chinese firm on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding in order to build a railway and a seaport in Cambodia to serve iron and steel mining industry. The deal was inked between Zhang ...
Tags: Cambodia, railway, iron, steel mining
Cambodian Confederation of Unions (CCU) is seeking a hike in wages of garment workers and has threatened to launch a mass strike if the demand is not met. Around 300 CCU members, who staged a protest at Freedom Park in Phnom Penh, ...
Tags: CCU, garment workers, mass strike, Cambodian
Cambodian police have arrested one of the founders of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay,which claims 30 million users despite efforts by authorities in Sweden to shut it down and other countries to block access. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg ...
Cambodian authorities will deport the co-founder of The Pirate Bay, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg. File-sharing website The Pirate Bay claims 30 million users, despite efforts by authorities in Sweden to shut it down. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg ...
Tags: Cambodian, Pirate Bay, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Computer Products
Malaysian manufacturer of thermo-formed plastic packaging and extrusion sheets LEE Soon Seng Plastic Industries is set to spread its presence in the Japanese and Cambodian markets. Investment holding firm SCGM-owned LEE Soon is ...
Tags: plastic packaging, Malaysia, Japanese markets, Cambodian markets
Christmas shoppers stand to be taken by surprise this month as campaigners take action in shopping centers around Europe to raise awareness of poverty wages of Cambodian garment workers. With these 'fashion mobs', they pressure H&M, Inditex ...
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Pan-Asian retailer Dairy Farm International Holdings has posted a rise in half-year profits, boosted by recent acquisitions and new store openings. Profit attributable to shareholders increased 8% to US$245m for the first six months of ...
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The symbol of the dragon represents spiraling DNA, the path to greater enlightenment. The Celestial Chinese Dragon is comparable as the symbol of the Chinese race itself. Chinese around the world, proudly proclaim themselves "Lung Tik ...
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A documentary revealing the miserable conditions faced by Cambodian factory workers producing goods for the fashion retailer H&M was aired on Swedish national television last night. Campaigners and the media are calling on H&M to respond to ...
Tags: H&M, fashion retailer, cloth, cheap clothing, slave wages
Helena Helmersson,Head of Sustainability of Hennes&Mauritz AB(H&M)has elaborated little bit on the issue of wages in the textile industry.As most other fashion brands,we don´t own the factories.Instead we buy garments from ...
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The slump in global markets has depressed demand for Cambodian products,leading to reduced growth forecasts by the Asian Development Bank(ADB)for 2012 and 2013. "Falling global demand,especially in Europe and the US,means that the ...
Tags: global markets, ADB, growth, garment exports