Kampuchea'S Clothing Industry Is Showing Signs Of Increasing Factory Registration.

< p > recently, the data from < a href= "http:// www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > Kampuchea < /a > industry and crafts department show that at the end of June 2014, 1200 garment factories registered in Kampuchea, an increase of 8% over the previous 6 months, and the report also revealed that as at the end of last month, the number of employment of "a href=" http:// "www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > garment industry < < /a > has reached 733 thousand and 300, while the figure at the end of last year still stood at 677 thousand and 600.

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"This is a good omen for the clothing industry," said MeanSophea, Vice Minister of industry and handicrafts, P.

However, in January this year, garment workers demanded a minimum wage, and a nationwide demonstration was launched.

The conflict resulted in 5 deaths.

The vice minister declined to comment.

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< p > > Kampuchea a href= "http:// www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > Garment Manufacturers Association /a /a Secretary General KenLoo said Kampuchea garment manufacturing industry still has business opportunities, but the growth is only the number of enterprise registration.

In fact, after demonstrations in January this year, employers still have doubts about new investment and expansion.

"Our membership is indeed increasing, but compared to last year, the growth rate is much slower."

He added.

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< p > the Kampuchea clothing association has 500 clothing and shoe factory members.

Of course, the number of clothing and shoe factories in Kampuchea is much more than that because some factories do not join the association.

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Most of the garment factories in Kampuchea (P) do simple processing. Almost all garment factories are foreign invested. The investors are mainly in Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Hongkong and Mainland China.

Kampuchea garment factories are mainly concentrated in Phnom Penh and Sihanouk. Most of the clothing and footwear raw materials in Kampuchea are imported from Asian countries, especially from China, Japan and Korea.

At present, the Kampuchea garment factory has such standards as washing, PEG, tie dyeing, embroidery and so on, but the dyeing and finishing ability is not yet available.

The minimum wage of clothing enterprises in Kampuchea is US $83 per month, but the average wage is around us $110-120 per month.

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< p > Kampuchea's low wage level has great attraction for clothing and other labor-intensive industries.

In recent years, due to the rising labor costs in China, a considerable number of Taiwanese funded enterprises, foreign-funded enterprises and even some mainland enterprises have shifted their production to low wage countries such as Kampuchea and Vietnam.

But too low wages will also cause workers to resist, Kampuchea clothing workers in January this year held a large-scale protest and killed 5 people.

After this incident, the order of clothing factories in Kampuchea had a certain degree of decline.

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