Two Forestry Administration officers were placed in provisional detention on Thursday morning amid an ongoing crackdown on illegal logging in Mondulkiri province. Provincial Forestry Administration
The Mondulkiri Provincial Court placed three Chinese workers in provisional detention over charges of extortion, and arrested three forestry and environmental officials over related forestry crimes.
National Police Commissioner Neth Savoeun has ordered police officials to work to rid the nation of criminal groups using Cambodia as a staging ground to process, distribute and export — but not produce — illegal drugs.
Two reporters have been arrested for incitement alongside five others detained at a land protest in Preah Sihanouk province.
Nine suspects arrested for illegally bringing $7 million in cash into Cambodia said they won the money gambling in Macau and were stashing it in the Cambodian property market, immigration department director-general Keat Chantharith told reporters.
China’s ambassador to Cambodia and the governor of Preah Sihanouk province agreed last week to open a Chinese consulate in the province amid a boom in Chinese investment and ballooning population.
All motorbikes, trucks and trailers found transporting illegal wood will be stopped and destroyed on sight, the National Anti-Deforestation Committee (NADC) announced in its latest
Kouch Chamroeun, transferred to head the troubled Preah Sihanouk province after an unlicensed Chinese construction collapsed and killed 28 there last week, vowed to eliminate the inattention of authorities and protect “the beauty of the coastal city.”
Four opposition activists were arrested this week amid recurring protests calling for the release from prison of a prominent labor leader as well as members of the outlawed opposition CNRP, some of whose family members continued to demonstrate in the capital on Friday.
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