The Ministry of Interior’s Anti Cybercrime Department said complaints related to online fraud cases increased by more than 60 per cent in 2022. Department director Sok Nithya said authorities had investigated each case, though he did not specify the number of complaints.
Prime Minister Hun Sen has appealed to people to be wary of Telegram scams after a user of the messaging app – who impersonated prominent local businessman Khun Sea – sent him a message asking him to transfer money. Hun Sen made the appeal in a more than two-minute audio address to the Cambodian public.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) joins 39 other organisations in condemning the violent arrests of five journalists who were covering a huge deforestation operation in southern Cambodia, and calls on the Cambodian government to guarantee journalistic freedom.
Five VOD journalists and four Khmer Thavrak activists documenting a forest clearing in Phnom Tamao were harassed by officers from the prime minister's bodyguard unit.
PHNOM TAMAO, Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen has stepped in to cancel all development projects slated for the Phnom Tamao forest, near the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, following months of public condemnation. The announcement on the morning of Aug. 7 saw work in what remains of the forest snap to a halt, but […]