Six senior border police officers in Banteay Meanchey province have been arrested for allegedly facilitating illegal cross-border smuggling at the O’Lhong border post, highlighting ongoing challenges of human trafficking, corruption, and drug-related crimes along the Cambodian-Thai frontier.
The National Defence Ministry has announced that Military Region 4 has sent a second letter of invitation to Thailand’s Army Area 2, requesting that it attend a Regional Border Committee (RBC) Meeting in mid-October. The Regional Border Committee (RBC) has no mandate to determine or alter the border line, Ek Sam Oun, Commander of Cambodia’s 5th Military Region, told his Thai counterpart in response to a demand to evict Cambodian residents from the border area as a precondition for holding the planned talks.
Prey Veng authorities have cracked down on five unlicensed moneylending groups involved in exploiting citizens through illegal loans with exorbitant interest rates, prompting calls for stronger enforcement and public awareness of threats and financial ruin.
Nearly 300 foreign workers in Sihanoukville have been arrested for allegedly staying and working illegally and sent to Phnom Penh, following their protest against a management-level Chinese national who is said to have insulted their religion.
Cambodia’s 51st Infantry Brigade has asked Thailand’s Burapha Task Force to halt today’s planned demining activities in Banteay Meanchey province’s Chouk Chey and Prey Chan villages.
