After a minor traffic incident, the son of a tycoon brandished an AK-47 rifle he later claimed to have picked up in his father’s sugarcane plantation, according to police.
More than 500 hectares, or about 16 percent, of Boeng Tamok, a natural lake in the northwest of Phnom Penh that is key for flood protection, is slated to be filled in and siphoned off to state institutions and private developers, government documents show.
Almost 700 villagers from Kompong Speu province protested outside the Land Management Ministry on Thursday to demand more than the $500 in compensation they were offered for losing several hectares of land each to a ruling party senator’s sugarcane plantation.
Covid-19 patients in Cambodia have been treated with hydroxychloroquine, a health official said, even though medical researchers last year dismissed the drug as a treatment for Covid-19, and the WHO this week said it should not be used to prevent or treat coronavirus.
Updated: 32 New Covid-19 Cases Linked to 4 Who Left… Feb 20, 11:30 am 
Updated: One Covid-19 Patient at Large, Another… Feb 23, 9:00 am 
Naga Workers Boycott Amid ‘Irregular’ Covid-19… Mar 1, 3:17 pm 
Phnom Penh Hospitals at Capacity for Covid-19… Feb 24, 6:19 pm 
Updated: 35 New Covid-19 Cases, Over 20 Businesses,… Feb 22, 8:47 am 
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