Cambodia’s low wages lure manufacturers away from China, other countries

By Rahul Jacob,




 
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
The Washington Post
 









PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Inside a
gleaming white-and-blue garment factory in Cambodia stand rows of
second-hand Singers — weathered sewing machines transported from a plant
in China that closed last year.

The Hong Kong-headquartered Top Form, which has 700 workers at