In June, employees at a garment factory in Takhmau district north of Phnom Penh complained of receiving electric shocks from their sewing machines but were ordered to keep working.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Hell No, We Won't Sew

Meanwhile, the Refinery Hotel, located in a former hat factory in the Garment District, has suffused its design with nods both to the millinery and the building's Neo-Gothic exterior.

WSJ: Boutique Hotels: 'Home' Away From Home

Most of them work in a single Hong Kong-owned factory in the garment district next to Kingston's port, which has 3, 000 Jamaican staff and work permits for 400 Asian supervisors.

ECONOMIST: Importing Asian energy

In a separate development, the overnight fire at the 11-storey garment factory in Dhaka's Mirpur district killed at least eight people.

BBC: Dhaka collapse: Death toll tops 900, as new fire kills eight

The quick-fix solution now being considered is to transform a derelict factory in Votanikos, a scruffy central Athens district with lots of Muslim residents, into a temporary mosque.

ECONOMIST: Plans to build a mosque in Athens are in disarray