Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered local officials to crack down on illegal gambling in villages. MFIs said they will conduct their own study in response to a German microloan survey.
The Preah Sihanouk provincial administration announced police are investigating a Sihanoukville business, a possible targeting of an illegal operator following a series of recent human trafficking rescues from scam compounds.
About 57 food and souvenir stalls directly next to Angkor Wat temple have not left their sites as an official deadline passed.
The Candlelight Party is supporting unions’ requests to increase the minimum wage to $215, and proposed the wage increase to $300 by 2024.
Workers will not get compensatory leave for Pchum Ben holidays falling on the weekend. A Candlelight official said there had been no progress made in a police investigation into violence against them in July.
Just before lunchtime Wednesday, a security guard fired his gun at a colleague inside CIMB bank in Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak I, shooting the colleague’s leg before fleeing the scene on his motorbike.
More than 300 construction workers who protested last month against a Booyoung Town subcontractor have been paid their unpaid wages for halted construction.
Taiwanese prosecutors allege ransom and electric shocks at Cambodian compounds, Malaysian media report a holidayer allegedly kidnapped then sold into scam work, and a Vietnamese newspaper says 10 countries are pressing Cambodia to cooperate on human trafficking.
Fifty-nine Thais were removed from scam operations in Cambodia in simultaneous raids on two compounds this week — including 40 from the Kandal facility where Vietnamese nationals last month made a dramatic escape swimming across a river, Thai police said Friday.
Cambodian authorities have publicized more arrests and rescues from forced-labor compounds, mostly in Sihanoukville — though they have so far spoken little about the multimillion-dollar global scams operating within them.
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