A Malaysian businessman facing extradition from Thailand to China over money laundering and online gambling tried to recruit investors in Cambodia.
China is scrapping its travel bans starting Sunday, and Cambodia’s tourism industry is looking ahead to a return to the brisk trade seen pre-pandemic.
Prime Minister Hun Sen is returning home from Indonesia after testing positive for Covid-19, he said this morning, noting he has no symptoms but will miss meetings with Chinese and French leaders.
Workers say their scam companies moved before and during police raids of compounds, allowing businesses to escape the law — and some workers to escape detention.
The unrelated incidents have left at least six people dead, as police investigate the boat’s deadly transport of Chinese nationals.
Oknha Duong Ngeap took $120,000 per Cambodian citizenship for Chinese and Taiwanese clients, he told the Phnom Penh court on Thursday.
National Road 3 linking Kampot to Preah Sihanouk has become a strip of deeply rutted red mud, a danger for residents and a headache for transport authorities who say the unstable ground likely cannot receive full repairs till 2024.
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.
China Nationalist Party lawmakers in Taiwan have asked their government to do more to assist citizens trapped in scam operations in Cambodia, as rising reports of trafficking and forced labor push local legislators and governments to act across the region.
Local police in a Chinese local administration have issued a warning that people from the territory involved in illegal work in Cambodia must return immediately or face severe consequences.
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