Candlelight Party councilors are being asked by ruling party commune officials to thumbprint petitions denouncing opposition leader Sam Rainsy for allegedly insulting the king.
A local district official from Kandal province was arrested alongside another man this week on suspicion of confining and raping a 14-year-old girl in a guesthouse, commune police said.
Kampong Chhnang authorities said the shutdown of a local volleyball court over alleged gambling on games was part of a crackdown on scam operations ordered by Hun Sen.
Hundreds of foreign workers who were set free from Svay Rieng casinos have fled the country into Vietnam via rice fields and across a stream, local police said on Thursday.
Villagers who settled two years ago in Run Ta Ek eco-village — where thousands of new Angkor Archaeological Park evictees have been promised plots of land — say that poor living conditions and lack of job prospects have caused many to abandon their homes.
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