garment industry



STORY OF THE DAY • Jan 01, 2020 • 12 min read
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Industry 4.0 Get with the times

By Andrew Haffner • Jan 01, 2020
In the fifth installment of our eight-week series with Future Forum looking at the Kingdom in 2040, we turn to the future of work. In the coming decades, the region's economies will change faster than we’ve ever seen before. Will Cambodia ride that energy or fall behind?

STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 09, 2019 • 15 min read

Automation Manufacturing change

By Andrew Haffner • Oct 09, 2019
Advances in automation are fuelling fears that the rise of robots could drive millions of Asian factory jobs back to the West

STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 21, 2019 • 17 min read

Foreign investment Cambodia’s crossroads

By Paul Millar • Aug 21, 2019
The Kingdom's open economy has been hailed as a triumph of the free market. But as growing foreign investment in the Kingdom’s real estate sector threatens to price locals out of the market, the time has come to ensure that economic growth serves all Cambodians, not just a wealthy few

STORY OF THE DAY • Jul 18, 2019 • 10 min read

Poverty Living on the edge

By Lorcan Lovett • Jul 18, 2019
Scraping through the refuse of Yangon’s slums for scraps to sell, children and adults alike find themselves caught between economic crisis in the countryside and a rapidly developing city that threatens to swallow their makeshift homes

Jun 24, 2019 • 13 min read
Garment waste

Out of fashion

Enough clothes have already been made to outfit everyone on the planet. But with rampant overproduction leaving more and more fabric waste in landfill, it's time to find a solution
By Amanda Kaufmann • Jun 24, 2019

Oct 12, 2018 • 5 min read
Cambodia

Economy under fire from possible EBA loss

Marco Kalinna, managing director of Cosmos Services, a garment trade supplier in Phnom Penh, and board member of the German Business Group in Cambodia, talks about the European Union’s possible retraction of its Everything But Arms preferential trade agreement with Cambodia
By Tassilo Brinzer • Oct 12, 2018

Aug 07, 2017 • 12 min read
Cambodia

Manufacturing on the line

Amid rising labour costs, stagnant export prices and productivity rates well below its neighbours', what might the future of the Kingdom's factories look like?
By Paul Millar • Aug 07, 2017

Jul 27, 2017 • 7 min read
Pactics

Why it pays to pay more

The only way forward for Cambodia's garment sector is good wages, worker empowerment and a focus on sustainability, according to the founder of this unconventional textile factory in Siem Reap
By Claire Knox • Jul 27, 2017

Dec 07, 2016 • 5 min read
Cambodia

Can the garment industry survive automation?

Automation will be the future of manufacturing, and it could have profound implications for Cambodia’s 700,000 garment workers
By David Hutt • Dec 07, 2016

Apr 20, 2015 • 12 min read
Cambodia's working class

Power to the people?

Much attention has been paid to Cambodia’s burgeoning middle class, but the emergence of a working class to complement it has rarely been discussed. Many experts agree that it is here and it is vitally important to the country’s economic and political prospects
By David Hutt • Apr 20, 2015

Oct 05, 2009 • 9 min read
Garment factories

The great clothes robbery

A spate of thefts from garment containers is costing the textile industry both money and reputation
By Charlie Lancaster • Oct 05, 2009