Cambodia arrests over 16,000 drug-related suspects in 2018

Phnom Penh – Cambodian authorities arrested 16,232 illicit drug suspects in 8,018 cases in 2018, said an Interior Ministry’s anti-drug department report on Tuesday.

Some 9,099 suspects were involved in drug trafficking and 7,133 were related to drug use, the report said, adding that 310 of them are foreigners in 24 nationalities.

In full: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/01/c_137712275.htm

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