Based on the current scenario in international business climate the apparel sector has set itself a target of achieving US$ 5 billion in 2015 through garment exports. A further US$ 1 billion is targeted from the emerging new market in China around that time, together will make the apparel sector worth nearly US$7 billion before the end of 2020, Tuli Cooray Secretary-General of the JAAF said. President Mahinda Rajapaksa in his capacity as Finance Minister last week released a gazette notificat

Cambodia's garment industry makes up 80% of its exports and employs hundreds of thousands of people. Strikes and violent demonstrations at garment factories in Cambodia have quadrupled over the past year, and a recent report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) said that conditions at factories were worse now than they had been in recent years. Source: BBC