The body of a Chinese man was found in a local stream after the man’s girlfriend posted online that he went missing from Poipet city, offering a $100,000 reward to find him.
The Koh Kong court is questioning six suspects over the kidnapping and detention of a Malaysian woman, as local police said some foreign nationals and crime-linked operations were moving into the province as they “evacuate” from Sihanoukville.
Collecting jewel orchids has become a new source of income for remote residents in Kampong Speu, worrying botanical experts who warn the rare plant could be picked to extinction.
Indonesian nationals rescued from a Phnom Penh scam compound say they were targeting Facebook users every day to cheat them out of thousands of dollars. Most are relieved to have gotten away from the criminal work and threat of violence that hovered over them.
Nine Chinese men stood trial on Monday for alleged crossed-border drug trafficking to Australia and New Zealand.
Military police raided a Chamkarmon district condominium building in the capital around midday Saturday and arrested more than 100 Chinese nationals, a spokesperson said.
Amid Cambodia’s current Covid-19 outbreak, authorities are advising against travel for Qingming Festival and outlining quarantine measures, and those in the Chinese-Cambodian community are finding ways to celebrate at home.
Cambodia has aimed and succeeded at wooing Chinese travelers in recent years, but some tourism professionals say that wasn’t the best strategy, even before the Covid-19 outbreak started taking a toll on Siem Reap tourism.
Based on interviews with 30 workers and vendors on Sihanoukville beaches, VOD found that the city’s economic transformation has left some locals struggling to adapt.
Some 50 unions and civil society groups on Monday said they wanted the government to reinstate a ban on foreigners working in certain self-employed jobs after the ban was reversed this weekend just over a month after being issued, according to a statement.
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