Cambodian authorities were tight-lipped over a raid in a Sihanoukville compound, but it was busy with police work and people gathered in its courtyard last week. Videos emerging amid the operation suggested Vietnamese nationals were waiting for rescue.
Twenty-four hours after he first made the suggestion, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday said masks are no longer required when outside in all parts of the country.
Environmentalist Chut Wutty was killed 10 years ago today, shot dead by a soldier in the Cardamom forest. The forest was being cleared by a company with high-level connections, including to the military. The area now contains large patches of cleared forest and a cascade of hydropower dams.
Two separate alleged murders happened within three days amid the New Year holiday in Siem Reap’s Prasat Trav village, involving a sorcerer killing and a domestic attack by a man said to have mental illness.
A local police chief said the family’s claims of false evidence and political motivations were fabrications while family questions a Candlelight Party commune candidate’s fishery charges.
Anger erupted in an Oddar Meanchey village as three youths aged 15 to 18 were arrested for allegedly raping and murdering a 17-year-old girl during the night after a New Year village dance party, police said.
About 200 factory workers protested on Phnom Penh’s Veng Sreng Blvd. for about an hour Tuesday morning after they learned that their struggling factory had removed valuable equipment from its premises.
Police are investigating the suspected murder of a 17-year-old girl after she was found dead in a stream over the weekend with scars on her body, local authorities said.
Battambang police are investigating three officers accused of trying to persuade a shooting victim’s family to accept a “funeral donation” from potential suspects in exchange for closing the case.
“We’ve solved it and now it has completely vanished,” Kheng said of the blood slave story, as well as a second case that surfaced in Thailand.
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