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South Korean firm moves to build plant in Haiti
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CARACOL, Haiti

The biggest international project aimed at helping Haiti rebound from the 2010 earthquake eased closer to reality at a ceremony Monday.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Haitian President Michel Martelly broke ground for an ambitious $224 million industrial park in northern Haiti that they hope will generate tens of thousands of jobs, house 5,000 of the workers and educate 500 of their children in a new school.

Those involved hope the South Korean garment manufacturer Sae-A Trading Co. Ltd. will set an example and urge other foreign businesses to invest in Haiti, a country long ignored by outsiders because of its cumbersome laws, heaps of red tape and occasional political tumult.

 
Korean factories to become Haiti's No. 1 employer
Écrit par JONATHAN M. KATZ
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Écrit par JONATHAN M. KATZ
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CARACOL,Haiti (AP) — The biggest international project aimed at helping Haiti rebound from the 2010 earthquake eased closer to reality at a ceremony Monday.

The deal on the eve of the one-year anniversary of Haiti's devastating earthquake will make Sae-A Trading Co. Ltd. the largest private employer in an impoverished Caribbean nation desperate for work.

Officials said it will create 20,000 jobs -- though many who work in Haiti's few existing garment factories today say their low wages are not enough to feed their families.