After months of authorities’ denials, Interior Minister Sar Kheng acknowledged foreign nationals had been trafficked into Cambodia and faced violent treatment.
The national military police are investigating a deputy bureau chief for alleged involvement in illegal timber trafficking.
Police say they didn’t find the four, whose rescues were requested by their embassy this month, in Koh Kong’s Union Development Group site.
Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Tuesday warned a high-ranking instructor of the Police Academy of Cambodia that he’d strip his rank if the instructor did not return a piece of land to a police training school he’d formerly led.
The Ministry of Women’s Affairs is urging publications to report more professionally on violence against women after a media review found patterns of coverage that made light of the subject.
Nine villagers in Ratanakiri await a court verdict for allegedly stealing wood from a Chinese concessionaire amidst an ongoing land dispute.
A Vietnamese family took out loans against their family home to help their son escape enslavement in Cambodia. They scrambled to organize a cross-border rescue from a scam syndicate accused of torture and trafficking, asking VOD for assistance.
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