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Cambodia's garment workers fret over deadly daily commutes


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KAMPONG SPEU, CAMBODIA: Gripping her friend's shoulder as a truck packed with 30 Cambodian garment workers tears down a pot-holed street, Nguon Sanit says her days are bookended by fear of dying on the kingdom's treacherous roads.

 

Workers in the sector - the majority of whom are women - make dicey daily commutes in a country where road accidents are a leading cause of death.

 

"Our lives are on the road," says Sanit, 39. "We are always worried." Cambodia makes clothes and shoes for top western brands in a US$7 billion export industry that is also the kingdom's biggest formal employer.

 

read more https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/cambodia-garment-factory-workers-wage-daily-commute-12243006

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