More Than 100 Workers Faint At Nike Factory

More than 100 female workers fainted yesterday in Kompong Speu province at a Taiwanese-owned garment factory manufacturing clothes for the US sports brand Nike, an official from the Ministry of Labor said. Pok Vanthath, deputy director of vocational safety inside the ministry’s health department, said he went to the Sabrina Garment Factory in Samraong Tong district to investigate why the workers had fainted and discovered that industrial-strength glue being used to lay tiles had triggered the mass fainting. …