Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Cambodia employs 320,734 workers in 269 garment factories

May 19, 2010
Source: Xinhua

Despite global economic crisis, Cambodia's garment sector still remains strong in terms of providing jobs to Cambodian people, a government data showed Tuesday.
The data provided by the Ministry of Commerce showed that there are currently 320,734 workers, among them 293,664 women, are working in 269 factories across the country.
It showed that the total garment exports to foreign countries in 2009 amounted 2,385 million U.S. dollars, of which 1,486 million U.S dollars to the United States, 577 million U.S. dollars to European markets, 184 million U.S. dollars to Canada and 136 million U.S. dollars to other countries.

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