Officials introduced new plans to combat human trafficking in response to the U.S.’s decision to drop Cambodia to the lowest ranking in anti-trafficking efforts, in a meeting chaired by Interior Minister Sar Kheng.
Former CNRP commune chief and leaders were sentenced by a Phnom Penh court, while two Thai women appealed sentences for smuggling drugs.
A speeding car driven by three kidnappers who were firing their guns at pursuing police slammed into a concrete pole early morning Tuesday, killing all three suspects, police said.
The Indonesian foreign minister discussed scam operations that had trapped Indonesian nationals in a meeting with the head of Cambodia’s National Police, and also met with dozens of people rescued from a compound in Sihanoukville.
Fake callers impersonating police and others in positions of authority are cheating Thais out of their life savings. But the victims often receive little sympathy, and are instead ridiculed for falling for the scams, many of which operate out of Cambodia.
Khmer Thavrak activists on Friday questioned their incitement convictions for attending protests in August 2020, saying not all were present over the four days in question — and one had not joined at all.
The mastermind of two failed murder attempts on her boyfriend got another sentence reduction by the Supreme Court on Friday — now down from an initial life sentence to seven years in prison.
Police are preparing inspections of all foreigners’ accommodations to look for criminality and illegal migrants after the U.S. dropped Cambodia to its lowest rank for human trafficking, Interior Minister Sar Kheng said.
Preah Sihanouk police are labeling as “defamatory” a complaint that sought the rescue of a group of workers confined in a Sihanoukville compound, even after officers responded and helped 10 people leave the job.
The Supreme Court heard back-to-back appeals from high-profile cases involving Mother Nature activists, a senior unionist and two co-accused, and a group of activists convicted for a protest outside the Chinese Embassy in October 2020.
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