Nearly 62,000 traps were removed from protected areas last year, up more than 18,000 from the year prior, the Environment Ministry said, as a conservationist estimated the total number of traps being set in the forests could be five times as high.
In a rare public statement amid ongoing protests, NagaWorld denied accusations that it targeted union employees as part of mass layoffs last year that have led to a monthlong strike by casino workers and the arrests of senior union leaders and members.
The Interior Ministry said an international lawyer assisting CNRP-linked Seng Chan Theary had damaged Cambodia’s honor when attending her trial. The lawyer says he was only attending a friend’s trial hearing.
“After having arrested our union leader, we still have one stance: that we are here to demand that the NagaWorld company release nine union leaders and return to the negotiation table. When they arrest our leaders, there will be no solution.”
The government is in debt to the Ly Chhuong construction company due to a series of infrastructure projects given to the company without a bidding process, with payments deferred in a “build first, settle later” racket, the prime minister said.
More than 300 trafficked Cambodian women were returned from China in the first nine months of the year, mostly after being scammed into marriages, according to the Foreign Affairs Ministry.
Hundreds of Phnom Penh families protested in the capital on Monday, highlighting two ongoing and long-standing disputes in the city.
The provincial administration told VOD no payments should have been asked of families of the Covid-19 dead, and police were now investigating the case. It also noted in a statement that more than half of the province’s Covid-19 corpses had yet to be cremated.
Preah Sihanouk authorities have issued a statement that hotels and casinos that detain, traffic or sexually exploit workers can have their business licenses revoked and cases sent to court.
Four suspected traffickers have been arrested and sent to court after Preah Sihanouk police found 36 Thai nationals illegally working at a casino, officials said, while denying that the workers had been confined against their will.
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