Overseas Cambodian workers send home over 1 bln USD per year

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PHNOM PENH, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's Labor Minister Ith Samheng said Wednesday that overseas Cambodian workers had remitted more than 1 billion U.S. dollars to their families in Cambodia a year.

"Currently, there are between 650,000 and 700,000 legal and illegal Cambodian laborers working abroad, and they have sent home more than 1 billion U.S. dollars a year," he told reporters on the sidelines of the labor ministry's annual conference.

A labor ministry's report released Wednesday showed that since 2007, a total of 196,958 Cambodian laborers, including 86,499 females, have been working legally in five countries, namely Thailand, South Korea, Malaysia, Japan and Singapore.

The report said some 111,306 laborers are working in Thailand, 44,330 in South Korea, 38,633 in Malaysia, 2,288 in Japan, and 401 in Singapore.

For the illegal migrant workers, they mostly work in Thailand.

source: http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=320364

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