Some 60 people in the capital and Stung Treng province have been detained over the sale and use of e-cigarettes and warned against repeating the offence. In Song, deputy director of the Ministry of Interior’s anti-drug department, told The Post on August 22 that officers had carried out 10 raids on e-cigarette businesses over the past month.
In the first six months of this year, police in Stung Treng, Ratanakkiri and Mondulkiri provinces seized nearly 200kg of drugs, which they destroyed in a bonfire on July 6 in Stung Treng in the presence of representatives from the three provincial courts.