Hundreds of hectares in Mondulkiri were sold to a major tycoon’s family for as low as 600 riel per square meter, a government document suggests, and is facing protests from existing residents.
Interior Minister Sar Kheng acknowledged that the syndicates trafficking workers into Cambodia also appear to be conducting fraud, alluding to operations that have been revealed for months in media reports.
Health officials are pointing to methanol poisoning after 69 residents of a banana plantation were hospitalized — including children as young as 10 — and three men died, though some officials are also raising suspicions over chemical use.
A corpse was dug up in Preah Sihanouk’s Prey Nob district, a man soon arrested in a neighboring province for murder, and now Sihanoukville’s Chinese community is full of talk about what may have happened between “Blue Star” and the “Monkey King.”
A Phnom Penh scam compound staffed with — and targeting — Cambodians was shut down by a police raid last week, but authorities are giving few details about the operation.
A woman who was allegedly confined by a brick kiln owner in Kampong Cham’s Chelea commune was released after her family agreed to pay a $5,000 debt to the owner.
Two Taiwanese nationals were arrested following gunshots at a Sihanoukville compound, as a village chief named the premises as part of the “Lixin” group chaired by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s nephew Hun To.
Interior Minister Sar Kheng acknowledged the buying and selling of foreign workers, plus violence and forced labor, at Cambodian compounds after police responded to 600 calls for help across at least 10 provinces.
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.
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.
VOD is an independent media outlet producing radio programs and disseminating information to the public via the Internet.
© 2019 VOD. All Rights Reserved.
