Cambodia's garment workers struggle to pay debts as lockdown bites
By Yon Sineat and Matt Blomberg
Source: globalbankingandfinance.com
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By Yon Sineat and Matt Blomberg
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After weeks without pay, it was debt that drove Cambodian garment worker Eang Malea back to her factory when it reopened this month, eclipsing her heightened fear of falling ill amid a surge of COVID-19 cases on factory floors.