Thai yellow-shirt activist Veera Somkwamkid, sentenced to eight years in jail by a Cambodian court on espionage charges in 2010, flew home on Wednesday after Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni granted him a royal pardon.
The Thai authorities have arrested 13 Cambodian migrant workers who were accused of using fraudulent work documents as at least 232,000 Cambodian laborers have been deported from or fled Thailand in fears of a roundup on illegal migrant workers, Cambodian officials said Sunday.
The number of Cambodian migrant workers, who have been deported from or fled Thailand over fears of a junta-led clampdown on illegal foreign workers, rose to 220, 000 on Wednesday.
An estimated 135,000 Cambodian migrant workers have been deported from or fled Thailand since early this month after the Thailand's new military government rounded up illegal migrant laborers, a senior official said Sunday.
At least six Cambodian migrant workers were killed and 13 others injured after a truck carrying them crashed into a tree in the Chachoengsao province of Thailand on Saturday night, Cambodian Foreign Ministry's spokesman Koy Kuong confirmed Sunday.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday urged China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation ( Sinopec Corp), the Asia's largest oil refining and petrochemical enterprise, to expedite its process to build an oil refinery in Cambodia by 2018, a spokesman said.
Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni on Monday called on all newly-elected lawmakers to see the country' s interest as the top priority and unify for the nation's prestige.
Cambodian senior officials said Wednesday that the United States has no rights to determine the fate of Cambodia, saying that only Cambodian people can decide the nation's future.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday expressed his "firm confidence" that his Cambodian People's Party would undoubtedly win in the July general election.