Court Charges Builders for Singaporean’s Murder
The Kompong Speu Provincial Court has charged four construction workers who confessed to murdering a Singaporean school director last week with theft with aggravating circumstances, an official said....
View ArticleTraditional Healer Charged With Raping Patients
A 68-year-old traditional medicine healer in Battambang province was arrested and charged on Saturday for raping a woman, and sexually abusing or raping three others including an underage victim, when...
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Factory Collapse Kills At Least 2, Injures 7
A ceiling collapse at a shoe factory in Kompong Speu province killed at least two workers and left seven seriously injured early Thursday morning, while an unknown number of people still remain trapped...
View ArticleAfter Collapse, Questions Mount Over ILO Monitoring
Labor rights activists and a government official accused the International Labor Organization’s Better Factories Cambodia program of ineffectiveness in its monitoring of factory conditions following a...
View ArticleMan Sets Fire to Wife for Feeding Children First
A 34-year-old man from Kompong Cham province’s Batheay district is at large after he doused his wife with petrol and set her on fire Sunday, causing serious injuries to her chest and legs, police said...
View Article5,000 Protest for Benefits in Kompong Speu
About 5,000 garment workers from a factory in Kompong Speu province, which manufactures clothing for U.S. sports giant Nike, on Thursday blocked National Road 4 demanding additional allowances, such as...
View ArticleBodies of 2 Foreigners Dumped on Riverbank
The bodies of two foreign men apparently tortured and killed were discovered Sunday on a bank of the Mekong River in Phnom Penh, police said. Local residents in Russei Keo district’s Prek Tasek commune...
View ArticleAustralian Police Detain Woman With Narcotics From Cambodia
Australian authorities on Monday said they intercepted an estimated 8.5-kg haul of methamphetamine carried on a flight that originated in Cambodia last week. A joint statement from the Australian...
View ArticleDouble Murder May Be Linked to Extortion Ring
Police said Tuesday they are investigating whether two bodies dumped on the banks of the Mekong River in Phnom Penh, which are so far unidentified and unclaimed, are connected to an extortion ring...
View ArticleNike Concerned by Police- Garment Worker Clash
U.S. sports giant Nike has said it is “concerned” by allegations that Cambodian police used force while trying to quash a protest by workers at one of its supplier factories in Kompong Speu on Monday....
View ArticleNew Battambang Passport Office Caters to Migrant Workers
The government announced Monday that it will open a new passport office in the northwest province of Battambang, the first such office outside Phnom Penh. In a statement, posted to the Ministry of...
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Eight Arrested as Garment Workers, Police Clash
Eight people were arrested as garment workers from rival unions in Kompong Speu province clashed with each other, and with riot police, on Monday at a Taiwanese-owned garment factory making clothing...
View Article‘Plane Crash’ Turns Out to Be Military Exercise
Villagers in Kampot and Takeo provinces on Tuesday called ABC radio reporting what they thought was a plane crash, only for an air force officer to call the popular radio station and inform listeners...
View ArticleBomb Disposal Specialist Killed in Mishap
An explosives removal specialist died and two others were seriously injured in an accidental explosion at a warehouse in Koh Kong province used by demining NGO Halo Trust to store mines and unexploded...
View ArticleMinivan Crashes Into Freight Train, Injures 12
A minivan carrying 16 garment workers crashed into a Toll Royal Railway freight train as it was crossing National Road 3 in Kandal province Saturday night, leaving 12 women injured, police officials...
View ArticleThree South Koreans Killed in Collision With Bus
Four people, including two children, died Tuesday afternoon and seven were injured when a bus crashed into a car carrying a South Korean family on National Road 6 in Kompong Thom province, police said....
View ArticleMan’s Thumb Severed for Trying to Steal Russian’s $10 Phone
A Russian and two Ukrainian men were arrested Tuesday night in Sihanoukville for systematically torturing a Cambodian man by tying him up, beating him and cutting off his thumb after he was caught...
View ArticleMen Who Fed Thief’s Severed Thumb to Cat Charged With Torture
The Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court on Thursday charged two Ukrainians and a Russian with the illegal detention, torture and assault of a Cambodian man, as new details in the gruesome case emerged....
View Article$1M Damage as Blaze Guts Siem Reap Market
A fire sparked by an electrical fault ripped through the Doeum Kralanh market in Siem Reap City early Friday morning destroying 200 stalls and causing more than $1 million in damage, according to...
View ArticleMinistry of Interior Outlaws Bets on National Election Results
The Ministry of Interior has outlawed all betting on the results of the upcoming July 28 national election, saying the move was necessary to prevent insecurity. The ban, which was posted on the...
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