Phnom Penh â Our visit with the young women making Levi jeans in a Cambodian garment factory brought to mind the Pink Floyd lyric, âI have become comfortably numb.â While these workers are better off than most Cambodian women, their lives are mired in desperation. Meanwhile, global consumers remain comfortably numb.
The poorest country in South East Asia, Cambodia lacks natural resources and, as a result, has only two viable industries: tourism and garment manufacture. Phnom Penh garment factories employ about...
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