Saturday, September 11, 2010

ASEAN: Cambodians working in foreign countries tops 39,000

September 10, 2010
Paul A. Ebeling, Jnr
www.livetradingnews.com

Cambodian government said Friday that by the 1-Half of this year, about 40,000 Cambodian are working in foreign countries.

At a round-table discussion with Club of Cambodian Journalists, Hou Vuthy, deputy director general of the General Directorate of Ministry of Labor and his colleagues told reporters that by June this year, there were 39,051 Cambodian workers working in Malaysia, Thailand, South Korea and Japan.

They said there were 19,588 Cambodians laborers working in Malaysia, 10,284 working in Thailand, 9,082 in South Korea and 97 in Japan.

Through these workers, about US$150M was sent back to Cambodia every year, said Hou Vuthy.
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