{"id":1503,"date":"2014-02-06T06:36:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T14:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2014-02-06T06:36:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T14:36:48","slug":"86-cambodian-factory-workers-hurt-in-truck-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/02\/06\/86-cambodian-factory-workers-hurt-in-truck-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"86 Cambodian factory workers hurt in truck accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHNOM PENH, Cambodia\u2014At least 86 workers have been injured in a truck crash on their way to work at factories making garments and sports shoes for famous western brands.<\/p>\n<p>The truck carrying 93 workers rolled over after a front tire burst Tuesday morning. Transporting workers in open trucks is common in\u00a0Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Svay Rieng provincial Governor Chieng Am says 11 workers are in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Labour activist Chea Odom of the Collective Union of Movement of Workers said the workers were employed at eight different factories in two specially designated industrial zones.<\/p>\n<p>He said the factories make sports shoes and apparel for well-known western companies.<\/p>\n<p>The garment industry is Cambodia\u2019s biggest export earner, in 2013 shipping more than $5 billion worth of products to the United States and Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHNOM PENH, Cambodia\u2014At least 86 workers have been injured in a truck crash on their way to work at factories &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-w","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}