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ARRESTED. NIM SOPHEA, 22, nephew of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, on murder charges in the shooting deaths of two people after a car race ended in a crash that killed a third person; in Phnom Penh. Police said Nim Sophea, the son of Hun Sen's sister, took part in the race. He allegedly fired an automatic rifle at onlookers who gathered at the crash site, killing two and injuring two. Authorities suspect Nim Sophea was drunk...
...days when Tranet doesn't have much to do--and that's often, he admits, as he is hobbled by a lack of funding--he heads across town to the customs house in Phnom Penh. Earlier this year, Tranet prevented a Frenchman from bribing a customs official to let him leave with an 18th century Buddha stolen from a pagoda in Posat province. The 5.3-ft. wooden statue now stands in a back-room workshop at Cambodia's National Museum in Phnom Penh. If it were returned to the remote pagoda, Tranet fears that thieves would target it again...
Politics in Cambodia can be a lethal business. In recent months, unknown assailants have murdered nearly a dozen people in what appear to be political vendettas. Last week, popular singer Touch Srey Nich, 24, was leaving a flower shop in Phnom Penh when four gunmen on motorbikes?two in military uniform?opened fire, killing Touch's 62-year-old mother and leaving the singer with multiple gunshot wounds to the face. (She is now in critical condition in a Bangkok hospital.) Touch is known by many as the "voice of Funcinpec"?the royalist opposition party?and her rendition of Funcinpec...
...Come on, dog meat is so delicious." KEP CHUKTEMA, governor of Phnom Penh, defending his approach to dealing with the city's stray-dog problem. Chuktema also said that dog meat goes nicely with palm-juice wine
When military police were ordered to raid a Phnom Penh office suspected of harboring an illegal phone scam last Tuesday, officers figured it was probably just another instance of small-scale Cambodian corruption. But what they found was pricey, high-tech telecommunications equipment?and evidence that boiler-room scams may have spread to Cambodia under the guise of supposedly charitable nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Police detained 20 foreigners in the raid, including 14 Britons, who remain under guard in a Phnom Penh hotel. According to officials, the group allegedly set up an illegal telephone network and had made nearly...