Workers Faint Daily in Sihanoukville, NGO says
The Cambodian Legal Education Center (CLEC) is “extremely concerned” after an investigation following a mass fainting last month at Nanguo garment factory in Preah Sihanouk province last month found that at least one to two workers are fainting daily in eight factories in the province. Joel Preston, a consultant for CLEC, said yesterday that the three-day investigation involved talking to workers at eight garment factories – three of which are located within the province’s Special Economic Zone (SEZ) 2. Workers were reporting faintings of one to two workers per day in certain factories among those eight, but fairly consistent from the ones inside the SEZ, Nanguo being one of those,” he said. …
