Prime Minister Hun Sen gifted more than 185 million riel (about $46,250) at a gathering of garment workers on International Labor Day, continuing to court a key demographic in the country’s politics and economy.
Police and military police have been accused of burning down 11 houses and razing family farms in Kratie province to clear a resettlement site for the evictees of an earlier land conflict.
Rights groups have called for an independent investigation into the death of a Kompong Cham inmate who died just three days after his arrest and whose body was returned to his family covered in bruises and with an apparent broken neck.
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