Two victims of criminal syndicates in Cambodia have shared the horrifying conditions they live in while being held under duress there.

Malaysia joins five other Asian countries in raising alarm on forced labor, slavery and torture of foreign nationals.

Police will seek the assistance of Interpol and Aseanapol to track down and rescue Malaysian citizens held under duress by criminal syndicates overseas.

Parents of two youths allegedly being held captive by a Cambodian online scam syndicate are pleading with the authorities to rescue their children.

More than 50 Malaysian youth are being held captive in Cambodia by a syndicate that forces them to scam people online.

Cambodian police say they are ready to coordinate the repatriation of between 2,800 and 3,000 Thai nationals detained after working in illegal online scam operations — some of whom were duped — and are currently being housed in compounds.

The Thai and Cambodian governments will sign a memorandum of understanding soon to crack down on call-centre scammers and operators of online gambling dens, the government spokesman said on Wednesday.

A Thai woman who claimed a Chinese gang stole her blood and attempted to steal her organs in Cambodia has been sentenced to six months in prison with no parole.

Cambodia's anti-drug police have arrested an American national and his Cambodian accomplice for allegedly trafficking almost 43kg of drug, the National Police reported on Saturday.

The Cambodian government has vowed to take action against illegal gambling, kidnapping and other crimes.

The country’s interior minister says he will end the crime wave in Sihanoukville by mid-year.

The 25-year-old woman, identified only as Bee, was among eight Thai nationals — seven women and one man — handed over by Cambodian immigration officials to Thai authorities at the Klong Luek border checkpoint in the Aranyaprathet district of Sa Kaeo province on Wednesday (March 9) evening.

A Thai woman who was rescued from a call centre gang in Cambodia she was lured into working for has recounted the horror of her ordeal including being tortured and later abducted.

A 25-year-old Thai woman from Bangkok, who was lured to work illegally in Cambodia for a call centre, escaped and fell victim to an organ trading gang, has safely returned to Thailand with the help of Thai police.

Beijing’s embassy in Ukraine has told Chinese residents to stock up on food and water and stay connected in case they need help.

The Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia has urged the Chinese and Cambodian governments to tackle the rising number of vicious crimes involving Chinese citizens in Cambodia.

The man is the latest to come forward alleging disturbing abuse in the Cambodian city of Sihanoukville, which has grown into a haven for Chinese scammers.

Man responded to an advert on 58.com for work as a nightclub bouncer but was smuggled to Cambodia where his captors extracted dangerous amounts of blood.

When a man, trafficked abroad and forced to join a cybercrime operation, refused to cooperate, kidnappers sold his blood instead.

Police in Cambodia say they have arrested six men who admitted killing five members of a family they believed were using sorcery to kill other people in their village.