The number of Montagnard asylum seekers in Phnom Penh has doubled over the past two months with the U.N. saying Thursday that there are now more than 200 in the capital, but the government’s refugee department again denied knowledge of the group.

Wan-Hea Lee, country representative for the U.N.’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), said in an email that the Interior Ministry’s refugee department has still not registered the 219 Montagnard asylum seekers.

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court charged a man Sunday with intentional violence after he confessed to using an ax to hack a British tourist in the head last week at a park in Daun Penh district, officials said Monday.

Sours Sopheak, a district police officer in charge of judicial affairs, said Doeb Ngol, 21, confessed to a prosecutor at the court that he used the ax to hit Phillip Shimmin, 26, in the head twice.

As an environmental NGO held a press conference in Phnom Penh on Monday to present evidence against a company it accuses of illegally extracting sand from an estuary in Koh Kong province, opposition lawmaker Son Chhay called on Prime Minister Hun Sen to order an investigation into the reports of unchecked dredging.

For more than two months, the NGO Mother Nature has been working with a community of mostly fishermen in Koh Kong’s Botum Sakor district to chase away dozens of sand barges operated by Rainbow International and Direct Access.

Amid numerous reports of Cambodian women being trafficked to China and men being used as forced labor on fishing boats, the U.S.’ latest Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report again said Cambodia is not doing enough to combat human trafficking.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry released the report on Monday and Cambodia—for the third consecutive year—was placed on the “Tier 2 Watch List,” where it has been since it was downgraded from “Tier 2” in 2013.

A Cambodian man has been put on Interpol’s most-wanted list and is thought to be hiding in Laos or Burma after evading police last month when they attempted to arrest him for allegedly leading a multimillion-dollar international drug smuggling ring, officials said Tuesday.

Lim Sokha Raksmey, acting director of Cambodia’s Interpol office, said Interpol issued a Red Notice for Dam Nha, 53, sometime in the last two weeks, but could not recall exactly when.

A British national and convicted pedophile, who served about three quarters of his two-year sentence for child sex abuse, will be deported to the U.K. by the end of the week, an immigration official said Sunday.

Richard Fruin, 38—who arrived in Cambodia to work as an English teacher after serving a year in prison in his home country for producing child pornography—was arrested in October 2013 at a guesthouse in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district, where police found him with an 8-year-old boy.