Stories vary on latest mass fainting incident

Workers at a garment factory in Kampong Speu province that supplies global retailer H&M will return to work tomorrow, after more than 100 staff were hopitalised on Monday, following what they and union representatives described as a mass fainting incident. A spokesperson for H&M’s headquarters in Sweden, however, yesterday denied that the fainting had occurred. “Our staff have visited the … factory and we can now say that no mass faintings occurred at Anful [on] Monday,” Anna Eriksson told the Post. “Rather, the workers felt stressed after unfamiliar sounds from an exhaust fan,” she said by email...

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