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Cambodia and India have agreed to deepen cooperation in combating transnational online scam networks through greater intelligence sharing, technical exchanges and capacity building.   ...

Sihanoukville is struggling to regain momentum. Once driven by Chinese investment, Cambodia’s coastal hub now faces a stalled construction sector, hit by weak capital inflows and uncertainty linked in part to an ongoing crackdown on online scam operations. ...

A joint force operation conducted overnight in the capital’s Sen Sok district led to the arrest of 20 foreign suspects, including two women, in connection with an alleged online scam operation, said the Secretariat of the Commission for Combating Online Scams (CCOS). ...

During the nine-month period from July 2025 to March 2026, Cambodian authorities report breaking up 250 cases of technology-based fraud. Approximately 750 suspects were sent to court to face charges in 80 cases. ...

Myanmar’s new military attaché to Cambodia has affirmed his commitment to further advancing relations and cooperation between the two countries’ armed forces, according to a Cambodian military statement released on Wednesday. ...

After authorities arrested a 43-year-old Cambodian man on suspicion of distributing child pornography on Telegram, child rights experts and NGOs warn that stronger digital enforcement and mental health support for survivors are still urgently needed in the fight against the growing crime. ...

Cambodian authorities say they have intensified the fight against online scams, with the secretariat in charge releasing updated figures from their current 60-day campaign. ...

The number of people detained in the latest online scam crackdown has passed 3,000, with most facing deportation. ...

The Cambodian government has ordered a nationwide crackdown on online scams, citing rising threats from foreign criminal networks, as international pressure mounts over alleged state complicity and Thailand ramps up its own response amid a tense border dispute. ...

Eight people have been reprimanded and one suspect has been sent to court during the beginning of a 30-day campaign against state land occupation and deforestation in Pursat province. ...

Cambodia’s Royal Gendarmerie arrested 11 Pursat province residents Tuesday after the military force deployed nearly 300 of its officers to crack down on natural resource crimes. ...

Over the past two years, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries detained 31 offenders and confiscated more than 1,400 electrofishing implements in the six provinces bordering Tonle Sap Lake. ...

An Interior Ministry official said that for the first 21 days of 2024, the authorities of the Ministry of Interior had cracked down on gambling in 43 locations and sent 72 suspects to court. ...

FARMERS’ crop yields are being undercut by unregistered middlemen selling fake fertiliser, and government efforts to combat this have proved ineffective, according to independent research from the Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI). CDRI’s preliminary research, conducted as part of a larger program investigating agricultural policies for ...

A day before Prime Minister Hun Sen publicly called for the arrest of Mam Sonando, the Beehive Radio station director hosted a fiery broadcast from The Hague, where lawyers were trying to launch a case against the premier in the International Criminal Court. Just under three ...

Unions will urge the Labour Advisory Committee (LAC) to crack down on employers using fixed-term contracts to threaten workers, they said yesterday. ...

Kampong Thom provincial authorities have confiscated more than two dozen dirt excavators in Stoung district over the past week after the machinery had been allegedly used to dig up land for development in a protected area used primarily for breeding fish. Hang Thol, a military police ...

Five of the eight villagers arrested during a bloody crackdown last month on what the government alleged was a secessionist movement in Kratie province are out on bail. Chuk Nguon, an investigating judge at Kratie Provincial court, said five menwere released on May 31 because ...