Society

Border Police Arrested Over Death of Karaoke Hostess

Four men, including three police officers, have been arrested in Kandal province and another is on the run after a woman entertaining them at a “KTV” karaoke parlor died after taking ecstasy, local police said.

The publisher, T. Mohan

Khmer Times Publisher Accused of Sexual Harassment

A former reporter at the Khmer Times has accused its publisher of sexual harassment, saying she resigned from the newspaper and returned to her home country to get away from repeat propositions of money for sex.

During a patrol of Prey Lang forest in Kampong Thom province on October 13-15, 2018. (Supplied)

Forest Patrol Group Says Rangers Aiding Logging

Environmental activists have accused park rangers of ignoring blatant forestry crimes that they say continue to occur unabated in the protected Prey Lang forest and even of being complicit in some of the crimes being committed.

A Cry for Help After Primary School Burns Down

KOMPONG CHHNANG — Dozens of students read aloud while their teachers show them how the read the Khmer language — but this lesson is not happening in their normal classroom.

Chinese Company Told to Rebuild Road

An unidentified Chinese company will be forced to rebuild a portion of damaged road between Kampot town and the Veal Renh roundabout, which lies about 50 km west along National Road 3 on the way to Sihanoukville, due to severe damage sustained by the road, according to Transport Minister Sun Chanthol.

The four Montagnards sent back to Vietnam on Friday morning. Image: Supplied

Four Montagnard Asylum Seekers Returned to Vietnam

Four Montagnard ethnic minority asylum seekers were sent back to Vietnam by Cambodian officials on Friday, leaving nearly 30 others remaining in stateless limbo in Phnom Penh.

Mr. Pov Saroath

For Shooting Victim, Incident Anything but ‘Resolved’

BATTAMBANG CITY — After being shot in the back five months ago in a violent crackdown by military police on a land-dispute protest, Pov Saroath is now deep in debt and faces a life without the use of his legs. For provincial authorities involved in the incident, at least, the situation has been labeled “completely resolved.”