In her rural village in Kampong Speu, 61-year-old Khin Pheap is known as the local medic. For more than two decades, she has provided medical treatment and sold medicines to neighbors who live far from formal health care facilities.
Three men who were separately setting up home clinics in Kampong Speu province have apparently fled after they applied for medical licenses using fake diplomas in response to an inspection by provincial authorities.
A Kampong Speu construction worker borrowed $3,000 from a private lender and poured it into a scam investment that went bust. The day before a payment was due on his loan, his son found him dead.
A force of about 100 police and military police officers descended on a Kampong Speu commune hall to arrest three alleged scammers accused of swindling entire villages and held hostage by an angry mob camping around the hall for several days.
Thousands of villagers in Kampong Speu province took three people hostage for three nights after pouring tens of thousands of dollars each into a massive Ponzi scheme allegedly run by a local family.
The Kampong Speu Provincial Court has questioned seven police officers after some discharged their firearms on two occasions last week while drinking alcohol outside a government building, an official said.
Nearly 70 workers in a Kampong Speu province shoe factory fainted while working on Thursday, with a labor official saying he could not point to the reason behind yet another mass fainting in a factory.
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