Lim Loeung says she spends up to 80 hours a week...at a factory that does work for companies including...Asics Corp...The factory believes Ms. Lim is at least 18 years old...According to her parents and her birth record, Ms. Lim soon will turn 15. Ms. Lim said that at her job interview a factory employee wrote an earlier birth year...than the one indicated on the birth record...A spokesman for the factory, New Star Shoes Co., denied the...claims...The factory doesn't employ any workers under 18, he said, but some people may lie... Katsumi Funakoshi, general manager of Asics' public-relations department, said the company recently conducted..[an] audit at New Star...[which] didn't find evidence of [child labour]...but...revealed "excessive working hours" and health and safety issues...which he said Asics is working to fix. Overall, child and teen labor is declining, according to recent United Nations surveys...Teen hiring carries moral complexities particular to poor nations...[Teens] sometimes present the identification documents of other people to appear older, according to labor activists, factory officials and some workers... [With timeline of milestones in child labour. Also refers to Wing Star Shoes, Nike]