Xinhua

Tuesday, 04 August 2015

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PHNOM PENH, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's garment industry is struggling to stay competitive due to low productivity, labor unrest and rising wages, according to a report by the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) on Tuesday.

Vietnamese and Indonesian factories are significantly more productive than Cambodian factories, said the association.

Bangladesh fares worse on the productivity scale at 50 percent, although the country still exports around 25 billion U.S. dollars worth of garments a year, compared to some 21 billion U.S. dollars from Vietnam and only 5.5 billion U.S. dollars from Cambodia, it added.

read more: http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14014/cambodian-garment-industry-struggling-for-competitiveness/

Interesting news.

along the same problems in the American textile industry click on the following from the New York Times this week.

http://nyti.ms/1018VgY

Times are changing fast.

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