The Defense Ministry has ordered the arrest of the owner of a Facebook account that posted a message—denied by the government—claiming Defense Minister Tea Banh had recently died in Beijing.
Though the ministry claims to not yet know who runs the Hai Khmerkrom account, dissident former monk Soeung Hai—who says he secured asylum in Sweden last year—has claimed ownership and said he posted the offending message.
More than 100 Chinese nationals were deported on Thursday after being arrested and accused of operating Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) scams on Chinese citizens.
More than 300 Chinese nationals have been arrested over the past month for running similar scams.
Following an increase in deaths caused by company drivers overtaking, speeding, drifting off to sleep or driving drunk, the National Police has called for the cooperation of nearly 40 businesses in keeping better records of their employees, according to an official.
On Wednesday morning at its Phnom Penh headquarters, the National Police held a meeting with private passenger car firms and delivery companies to tackle the problem, Run Rathveasna, director of the traffic police and public order department, said.
Prime Minister Hun Sen, in an attempt to settle an eight-year land dispute, on Tuesday offered additional land in the Boeng Kak lake development to the seven families who had not yet accepted compensation.
In a speech at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh, Mr. Hun Sen petitioned Phnom Penh governor Khuong Sreng to resolve the issue by giving the protesting families additional land on top of what City Hall offered earlier this year.
The Interior Ministry’s anti-terrorism department has arrested more than 100 additional Chinese nationals believed to be involved in an internet extortion scam, all found in the same apartment block where they detained 225 people three days earlier, a police official said.
The lawyer for a woman accused of plotting a grenade attack to kill her former boyfriend said during the second day of her trial on Friday that there was no evidence to support the charges, despite incriminating testimony from her alleged accomplices.
Sok Kimly, 38, charged with initiating premeditated murder, is accused of arranging the failed attempt to kill her former boyfriend, Ea Lyhour, in Phnom Penh’s busy Chamkar Mon district in September. Four alleged accomplices are also charged in the plot, in which three people were injured.
A pair of armed robbers convicted of fatally shooting a university student who tried to protect his sister and fiancee from being attacked were sentenced on Friday to life in prison.
Oum Suosdey, 33, and Chan Dararith, 27, were also each fined 5 million riel, or about $1,250, by Phnom Penh Municipal Court Presiding Judge Chuon Soreasey.
Anti-terrorism police on Friday found at least 40 more Chinese nationals holed up in a Phnom Penh condo where authorities had earlier arrested about 200 Chinese men and women in an alleged extortion scheme using internet technology, officials said.
“The police broke into one of the big rooms on the 11th floor when they were searching for equipment,” said Khat Khuntith, commune chief of Boeng Kak II. “Some of them were hiding in the toilet.”
The lawyer for a woman accused of orchestrating a grenade attack on her former boyfriend rebutted the charges during the second day of her trial on Friday, saying the prosecutor had presented no evidence to support the charge, despite incriminating testimony from her co-defendants.
Sok Kimly, 38, charged with initiating premeditated murder, is accused of arranging the failed attempt to kill her then boyfriend in Phnom Penh’s busy Chamkar Mon district last September. Four alleged accomplices also were charged in the plot, in which three people were injured.
A pair of armed robbers convicted of fatally shooting a university student who tried ram one of the men with his car in an effort to protect his sister and fiance from an attack were sentenced on Friday to life in prison.
The defendants, Oum Suosdey, 33 and Chan Dararith, 27, also were each fined 5 million riel, or about $1,250, by Phnom Penh Municipal Court Presiding Judge Chuon Soreasey.
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