Four Kampong Chhnang residents are alleging that a commune police chief’s family beat them over a mundane dispute, after which provincial police intimidated them to withdraw a complaint they had filed over the incident.
A grenade was wired to a detonator, hidden in a cake and placed on the roadside this morning outside NagaWorld casino — then picked up by a street cleaner who moved it onto a grassy road median, where it exploded two hours later.
A district administration chief in Battambang has resigned in protest over alleged irregularities in appointments of official positions, prompting the province to vow action against him for “his undisciplined views.”
Interior Minister Sar Kheng acknowledged the buying and selling of foreign workers, plus violence and forced labor, at Cambodian compounds after police responded to 600 calls for help across at least 10 provinces.
A 5.5-hour Interior Ministry press conference reviewed recent raids against the forced labor of foreign nationals, but officials continued to sidestep from naming compound owners and saying whether the syndicates perpetrated global scams.
The future of the Cambodia National Love Party is in limbo after the Interior Ministry refused to accept its single remaining permanent committee member as acting president due to violations of party bylaws.
Newly elected opposition councilors in Kampong Thom have been discriminated against and given no uniforms or places to sit, so they “just wander around” commune halls, the Candlelight Party said.
Six hectares of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Tamok has been handed to a four-star general in charge of the Interior Ministry’s finance department, as residents living along the lake’s shore continued to protest their looming resettlement.
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