A remote, city-like compound owned by U.S.-blacklisted tycoon Try Pheap is housing online scam operations of thousands of workers rife with forced labor, detention and unexplained deaths, trafficking victims and rescuers allege.
In a rejection of a provincial leader’s push for hardline monitoring of journalists, the head of the Ministry of Information this week denounced the arbitrary detention of two reporters and urged authorities to more closely cooperate with media workers.
Fourteen opposition activists and members, many of them arrested early last year over Covid-19 posts and private conversations, were denied bail during a hearing this morning.
On VOD English this week: underage trafficking victims make pleas for help from Sihanoukville; Phnom Penh’s newest artificial island; climate change talks and Cambodia’s reliance on the Redd+ program; U.S. sanctions and the release of political prisoners.
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