370 workers faint at Cambodia factories after nearby farmer sprays pesticides

About 370 workers fainted at Cambodian factories in the past two days, possibly because of pesticide spraying on nearby rice fields, officials said Friday. …
The garment industry is Cambodia’s biggest export earner, employing about 700,000 people in more than 700 garment and shoe factories. In 2014, the Southeast Asian country shipped more than $6 billion worth of products to the United States and Europe.

 The Associated Press News Staff
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/370-workers-faint-at-cambodia-factories-after-nearby-farmer-sprays-pesticides-1.2667077

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