Five Arrested Over ‘Rain Betting’ as Radios, Cars Confiscated
A “rain betting” game that involves driving around with walkie-talkies has landed five men in police custody in Battambang city.
A “rain betting” game that involves driving around with walkie-talkies has landed five men in police custody in Battambang city.
Phnom Penh Municipal Police say officers will get serious about enforcement of the capital’s curfew starting tonight, after meting out only “soft punishments,” including confiscating 1,053 vehicles, over the first four days of renewed Covid-19 restrictions.
As Phnom Penh officials handed out notices around town about the new two-week ban on dining in at restaurants, food vendors said that despite the seemingly endless Covid-19 disruptions, takeaway-only could still be OK for business.
After 15 months with sparse international tourists, handicraft vendors in Siem Reap say they’re barely covering their expenses and fear the future if tourism doesn’t return.
Malaysia-based Telecom provider Smart Axiata admitted Friday there was one case where a customer’s existing number had been transferred to a new subscriber, after the Telecommunications Ministry warned of punitive action against the service provider for transferring active numbers.
In a move a labor group said was unprecedented, NagaWorld is calling on governmental labor inspectors to authorize the dismissal of a group of union leaders as part of the casino’s mass layoffs, overriding the legal protections unionists enjoy unless they have committed serious offenses, a workers’ representative said.
Around 30 construction workers protested at the Hui W Travel Agent construction site — a firm connected to Chinese payment service Huione — after they were not paid salaries, with a resolution reached hours later.
Whether they have the virus or not, Cambodian workers in Thailand say they’re struggling as Covid-19 surges at construction sites and other workplaces packed with migrant laborers.
Some NagaWorld casino workers who rejected voluntary termination packages — arguing that the company’s dismissals illegally targeted union activists — have now been fired and had thousands of dollars wired to their accounts.
Union activists say hundreds of laid-off Cintri workers still haven’t received new jobs, violating a promise from Phnom Penh City Hall, as the beleaguered trash collection company disposed of more than 1,000 workers amid a transition for the city’s waste management.
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