Roundup of vagrants begins; numbers kept secret

The Phnom Penh municipality on Tuesday began its latest campaign to clear the city’s streets of vagrants, rounding up truckloads of beggars and sellers at traffic lights and holding them at district offices and the municipal social affairs department. Street people across the city were seen being loaded into caged trucks, but City Hall and the social affairs department declined to reveal how many people had been gathered up. …

Kuch Naren and Matt Blomberg
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