Spirited reopening for Anful

Workers at a garment factory that was temporarily shut after more than 200 women collapsed in two mass fainting incidents last week gathered yesterday at the facility in Kampong Speu province for a Buddhist ceremony intended to rid the factory of evil spirits. Pheng Songoun, a representative of Anful Garments Manufacturing, said the ceremony was held to reassure the roughly 1,000 employees ahead of their return to work today that evil spirits had been expelled from the factory, which was closed by labour officials following the incident. Those who attended offered rice to four monks who in turn blessed the women and chanted prayers in front of the facility where workers fainted on Monday and Thursday last week…

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