via CAAI
September 11, 2010
Cambodian government said Friday that by the first six months of this year, nearly 40,000 Cambodian are working in foreign countries.
At a round-table discussion with Club of Cambodian Journalists, Hou Vuthy, deputy director general of the General Directorate of Ministry of Labor and his colleagues told reporters that by June this year, there were 39,051 Cambodian workers working in Malaysia, Thailand, South Korea and Japan.
They said there were 19,588 Cambodians laborers working in Malaysia, 10,284 working in Thailand, 9,082 in South Korea and 97 in Japan.
Through these workers, about 150 million U.S. dollars was sent home (Cambodia) every year, said Hou Vuthy.
He said their salary, while working in Thailand and Malaysia is about 200 U.S. dollars per month, whereas in South Korea and Japan is between 800 and 1,000 U.S. dollars per month.
Hou Vuthy said Cambodian laborers were first sent to work abroad in 1995.
As of date, Cambodian workers are only sent to these four countries, but more targeted nations such as Kuwait, Qatar, Canada and Singapore are being negotiated, and hope those countries will accept Cambodian labors in the near future, according to Hou Vuthy.
Source: Xinhua
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