PHNOM PENH: Cambodian police arrested dozens of garment workers Monday, breaking up a pay protest with water cannon at a factory site near the Vietnamese border, unions and a local governor said.
Labour disputes beset the country’s multi-billion dollar garment industry, which supplies big global brands including Gap, Nike and H>M, often resulting in strikes and heavy-handed crackdowns by authorities.
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