FEATURE -Built to scale? Growing pains hit Cambodia's businesses for good
Published on: Monday 14 March 2022
A snippet of Leakena's life is written on a pair of jeans. It marked the high point in a tale of redemption: from being exploited and ostracised to working a steady job making $250 jeans for a boutique manufacturer in rural Cambodia, with enough spare time and money to raise two children. "People like us are often given little value," Leakena told the Thomson Reuters Foundation during a visit to the factory.
