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About 200 workers employed by a sub-contractor of Kampot Cement Company went on strike for several hours Tuesday, demanding better wages as well as annual leave, a union representative said.

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday urged Cambodians to keep safe as they celebrate Khmer New Year this weekend and instructed law enforcement officers to be vigilant during a period renowned for causing an annual spike in traffic accidents.

A 48-year-old man was arrested on Friday evening for raping a 12-year-old girl that afternoon in Battambang province, local police said.

Fifteen North Korean nationals arrested Thursday for allegedly running an illegal online gambling ring in Phnom Penh were sent to Prey Sar prison on Saturday after appearing at the municipal court a day earlier, officials said Sunday.

Fifteen North Korean nationals on Thursday were arrested for allegedly running an illegal online gambling operation in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kok district, police said.

A 41-year-old man was arrested Wednesday afternoon for sexually abusing a 5-year-old-girl while she bathed in the Bassac River in Kandal province’s Koh Thom district, police said.

Takeo Provincial Court on Monday charged a 40-year-old man for raping his 7-year-old niece while other family members were out of the home cultivating rice, officials said.

A man and a teenage boy were killed by an anti-tank mine and a mortar shell in separate incidents on Friday and Saturday, according to police.

Twelve men remained Wednesday in a Phnom Penh jail after a Sunday night wedding brawl that left one man dead and another injured. Among the detainees is the groom.

A Siem Reap provincial forestry official hit and injured a woman on a motorbike with his Range Rover while driving drunk on Sunday afternoon, police said.

Seven men were arrested and two others injured Friday night following a fight that broke out at a wedding in Kandal province’s Khsach Kandal district, according to local police.

A police official in Koh Kong province was charged Thursday with the murder of his boss’ brother and detained in the provincial prison ahead of trial, according to a provincial judge.

The Kompong Cham Provincial Court on Wednesday charged a 16-year-old boy with raping a 3-year-old girl at a local primary school in Batheay district, officials said.

A district police officer in Koh Kong province was questioned by provincial police Wednesday after being arrested on Tuesday over the fatal shooting of his boss’ brother.

A fisherman who survived a deadly collision after his boat smashed into a towboat off the south coast earlier this year filed a complaint Tuesday with the Anti-Corruption Unit, accusing a Koh Kong Prov­incial Court judge and his clerk of corruption after the judge allowed the owner of the towboat to leave prison after paying $10,000.

A Vietnamese couple and a Chinese man were arrested Sunday after they were found with more than 300 ecstasy tablets at a guesthouse in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district, police said Wednesday.