Border crime in Interpol’s sights
An ASEAN-first Interpol database tracking transnational crime between Cambodia and Vietnam was launched in Phnom Penh yesterday. Keo Vannthan, head of Cambodia’s Interpol Bureau at the Ministry of Interior, said the European Union had pledged almost US$800,000 to the pilot EU-ASEAN Migration Border Management Program project between the two countries. Khine Myas Chit, an ASEAN Secretariat official, said it would be a first in an ASEAN-wide roll-out of Interpol border projects. …