Residents in Kandal’s Arei Ksat commune say trash has been piling up on neighborhood streets, with a local official saying a flooded dumpsite has affected the operations of a private company charged with collection.
A local district official from Kandal province was arrested alongside another man this week on suspicion of confining and raping a 14-year-old girl in a guesthouse, commune police said.
Two owners of a commuter boat and its 15-year-old driver have been arrested following the deaths of 11 schoolchildren last week.
Ten children have been found dead and one is still missing after a tragic boat sinking in Kandal province.
A flood-protection project is 70% complete around the site of major Phnom Penh flooding for the past two years, as residents around the Prek Tnaut river remain watchful over the season’s severe rains while water levels creep up.
Vietnamese officials are seeking more information and urging cooperation from Cambodia after around 40 people, one of whom was found dead in the river, escaped from a Kandal casino and fled across the border.
In an apparent mass escape, dozens of people rushed through the gates of a border casino compound in Kandal’s Koh Thom district on Thursday morning, jumped into the Binh Ghi river and swam to Vietnam.
Around 40 families in Kandal province said the government had cleared their farmland without any notice or compensation, with a local official saying the land will be used to construct a canal and dirt road.
Three Thai nationals suspected of being detained and sold by a casino have been charged with theft after they were arrested trying to drive back home.
Boeng Trea lake, which is just north of Tonle Bati, has been drained, excavated and privatized in recent years. But Kandal officials this week gave conflicting accounts of what will happen to the drained lake.
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