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PHNOM PENH: Over the course of four separate days between Feb 9-18, more than 4,700 multinational tourists and nearly 3,000 crew members arrived in Sihanoukville aboard five different cruise ships, according to the Preah Sihanouk provincial Department of Tourism.

PM Manet dismisses calls for release of ‘fake kidnap’ pair Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.

TAIWANESE influencer Good­night Chicken, who live-streamed his own kidnapping by an alleged scam call centre in Cambodia, was sentenced to two years in prison and fined four million riel (RM4,684) for the hoax, China Press reported.

PHNOM PENH: Prime Minister Hun Manet has expressed his dismay at the suggestion that two men from Taiwan, who were recently sentenced to two years in jail for producing a fake kidnapping video in Preah Sihanouk province, should be released to care for their sick mother at home.

They were each sentenced to two years' jail for producing 'slanderous videos'. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Two Taiwan­ese men have been sentenced to two years in jail each after they staged a fake kidnapping from a Cambodian seaside resort and posted video of it online, a court said.

Things got more serious than they expected.

Chen Neng Chuan, 31, and Lu Tsu Hsien, 34, were arrested on Wednesday after they live-streamed two videos on YouTube, staging a forced abduction and escape.

Cambodia recorded more than 1 million tourists during the lunar New Year holiday, according to its Ministry of Tourism (MoT).

An influencer who dominated headlines back home in Taiwan after live-streaming his alleged escape from abduction in a Cambodian scam mill has been arrested for staging the hoax. Chen Neng-chuan, well known for his paranormal videos made in Taiwan and elsewhere, had teased on Instagram prior to his arrival in Cambodia that he will be exploring "the world's darkest corner"...