The New York Times - JAN. 17, 2014
PHNOM
PENH, Cambodia — Just over two years ago, at the Anful Garments Factory
in Kompong Speu Province, a young worker named Chanthul and 250 of her
colleagues collapsed in a collective spell of fainting. They had to be
hospitalized; the production line shut down.
Two
days later, the factory was back up, and the mass faintings struck
again. A worker started barking commands in a language that sounded like
Chinese and, claiming to speak in the name of an ancestral spirit,
demanded offerings of raw chicken. None were forthcoming, and more
workers fell down. Peace, and production, resumed only after factory
owners staged an elaborate ceremony, offering up copious amounts of
food, cigarettes and Coca-Cola to the spirit.
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