Cambodia's garment sector reels after 'horror year'


This picture taken on Dec 12, 2019 shows garment factory workers heading to various vehicles to head home after leaving work in Kampong Speu province of Cambodia. - AFP

KANDAL PROVINCE, Cambodia (Reuters): L on Vanna has been working around the clock for months but she doesn't sew clothes anymore -- she guards the machines in the abandoned garment factory in Cambodia where she once worked.

Vanna believes the sewing machines are her only hope for saving her home and land, which she put up as collateral for a loan to feed herself and her ailing parents after the new coronavirus pandemic shuttered the factory in March.

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