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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) joins 39 other organisations in condemning the violent arrests of five journalists who were covering a huge deforestation operation in southern Cambodia, and calls on the Cambodian government to guarantee journalistic freedom.

A 16-year-old worker was later found dead in a river where workers had fled.

The National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD) is preparing to send the draft of a new national policy on the establishment of drug-free villages and communes to the head of government for a review and decision. The new policy will add to the Kingdom’s stringent drug trafficking reduction mechanisms.

PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/Asia News Network): Cambodian police are cooperating with their Vietnamese counterparts to search for more than 40 Vietnamese staffers who broke through a door to escape from their casino in Kandal province’s Koh Thom district.

Cambodian police are cooperating with their Vietnamese counterparts to search for more than 40 Vietnamese staffers who broke through a door to escape from their casino in Kandal province’s Koh Thom district.

A senior official at the Ministry of Social Affairs Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation strongly discouraged organisations from “inventing” victims in an attempt to raise funds. He urged donors to provide assistance to genuine victims by cooperating with the ministry, which was preparing a new mechanism that would ensure help was provided to those who were genuinely in need.

On August 4 of this year, a team from the Department of Performing Arts under the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts filmed leaflute musician Chhorn Sam Ath, one of the few remaining music masters who can whistle a tune into a leaf to make music.

The Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation has provided emergency assistance in the form of food and other materials to 280,292 households who fell victim to natural disasters and other unfortunate events in the past five years, and has now set the medium and long-term goals of strengthening social protection.

After more than two and a half years of the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of national and international visitors to the pre-Angkorian Sambor Prei Kuk temple complex in Kampong Thom province has begun to increase.

Pictures and video clips of the Angkor Wat temple, its spires seemingly coated in gold, have been shared tens of thousands of times on social media, prompting a sense of wonder among those who have seen them.