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Freelance Researcher | Specializing in desk-based research | Email me for work: noan.sereiboth@gmail.com​​ | Signal: +855 89 867 556 Buy me a coffee ☕: tinyurl.com/2ywmp682 📍Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 3h
Governor of National Bank of Cambodia Chea Serey met with Robert Kaproth, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury for Asia. They discussed the development of the financial sector and explored technical assistance from the US Treasury on Virtual Assets.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 6h
According to Takeo Governor Vei Samnang, construction on the Funan Techo Canal will accelerate next month—boosted by a newly signed, nearly $1 billion loan agreement with China Exim Bank—following slow progress since its August 2024 inauguration.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 20h
The Conciliation Commission will hold its second meeting regarding the UNCLOS maritime dispute between Cambodia and Thailand from October 14 to 18 in The Hague.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Vietnamese Prime Minister Le Minh Hung arrived in Cambodia for a two-day visit following his trip to Laos.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Cambodian Interior Ministry officials met to prepare for an upcoming six-nation ministerial meeting with China, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam on combating online scam operations.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A Cambodian court sentenced opposition member Khoeun Virath to two years in prison over his Facebook posts.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Prime Minister Hun Manet’s wife took her youngest child to Kantha Bopha Hospital to celebrate his birthday, where they visited the children and handed out gifts.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Duong Chhay—a former tycoon stripped of his 'Oknha' title following a domestic violence case involving his ex-wife and who previously had a physical altercation with Try Pheap's son—has been appointed as an advisor to CPP President Hun Sen.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Prime Minister Hun Manet will visit Azerbaijan on October 12–13, attend the CICA Summit in Baku on October 15, and visit to Türkiye on October 16 and Kazakhstan on October 17.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Julia Stevens, Legal Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Cambodia, visited a former scam compound in Bavet town.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Under a new policy effective this month, Prime Minister Hun Manet has banned beer ring-pull prizes while allowing alternative promotional schemes.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Cambodian Ministry of Interior: the Australian Embassy asked for help searching for a missing Vietnamese activist with an Australian passport after he entered Cambodia, Tran Hiep. Following a search, Cambodian officials learned from Vietnamese authorities the activist was being detained in Vietnam
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Today, Cambodian authorities raided a 30-story building and arrested 587 suspects—including 518 Indonesians, 18 Thais, and 51 Cambodians—over an online scam operation in Poipet. Authorities stated that the ringleader is a Thai national.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Cambodian authorities in Banteay Meanchey province confiscated smuggled Thai goods last night amid the land border closures.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Following orders from top leadership, both Hun Kimcheat and Pheng Vannak deleted their Facebook posts on the issue and agreed to end it.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
After pro-ruling party figure Pheng Vannak stepped in to support and assist Horn, PM Hun Manet’s cousin Hun Kimcheat responded in defense of the pawnshop owner, whom he personally knows.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A pawnshop owner sued reporter Phat Horn for defamation over a report exposing illegal motorbike collateral. Horn’s case drew strong public support, as citizens praise his past reports helping crime victims and demand a crackdown on illegal pawnshops.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Chin Sitha, former deputy head of the tank unit within the Prime Minister's Bodyguard Unit—who studied the operation and technology of the Type 59D in China in 2000—stated that the Chinese-made main battle tank is the most advanced in the Cambodian military.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Former Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha and his wife arrived in the US for the first time since his 2017 arrest. The visit comes after his 2026 royal pardon and the appointment of his daughter, Kem Monovithya, as special envoy to Prime Minister Hun Manet.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Another Cambodian fisherman arrested in Cambodian waters by the Thai navy in February was released and returned to Cambodia.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
PM Hun Manet said nearly 3,000 young people picked up application forms on the first day of voluntary registration for mandatory military conscription.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Prime Minister Hun Manet said he hoped that the Funan Techo Canal project would be completed by 2028. Despite its inauguration in 2024, financing from China was secured only this year, compensation payments remain incomplete, and construction progress remains very slow.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cambodian authorities arrested a foreign traveler at Siem Reap International airport prior to departure after confiscating 3,148 grams of suspected heroin.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cambodia increased the monthly minimum wage for garment workers by $2 to $212 for 2027.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Authorities and residents caught a crocodile in flooded Poipet town. Catch a crocodile with a fishing net? Oh my god😳
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet visited flood-hit Banteay Meanchey province
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Germany's Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) announced the closure of its office in Cambodia, where it has operated since 1994.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Accepting a request from the United States, the Cambodian government set up a working group to facilitate the reception of Afghan refugees from Qatar.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Cambodian Ministry of National Defense will open conscription applications next month following the enactment of the new mandatory military service law. Cambodia enacted this law to bolster its national defense capabilities following recent border conflicts with Thailand.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Meach Sithyka Jessica—a West Point graduate, former military officer, former provincial judge, and daughter of Ministry of Interior Secretary of State Meach Sophana—has been appointed Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Justice.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
India and Cambodia have postponed a plan to reintroduce Bengal tigers into Cambodia, moving the target from 2025 to 2028 after a review found that the available prey base in the proposed release landscape remains too low to support a viable tiger population. india.mongabay.com/short-articl...
india.mongabay.com
India postpones Cambodia tiger reintroduction
The plan to reintroduce Bengal tigers from India to Cambodia's Cardamom Mountains has been pushed to 2028 over prey shortage.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cambodian authorities will target licensed casinos that are actually fronts for illicit cybercrime, an industry that’s stolen billions of dollars from victims globally, as they extend a yearlong enforcement push beyond physical compounds. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Cambodia to Target Casinos in Next Phase of Anti-Scam Sweep
Cambodian authorities will target licensed casinos that are actually fronts for illicit cybercrime, an industry that’s stolen billions of dollars from victims globally, as they extend a yearlong enfor...
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Some requests are for in-person meetings, while others detail family hardships and specifically ask for money to buy houses (or) motorcycles (sometimes two at a time). f24.my/CB09.BS
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Cambodia's ex-leader Hun Sen complains of 'constant' money demands
Cambodia's former leader Hun Sen, who in his nearly four decades in power cultivated an ever-widening system of patronage, has complained about receiving "constant" requests online for money and assis...
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Cambodian Oknha Association, chaired by businessman Ly Yong Phat—who was sanctioned by the U.S. government over alleged ties to online investment scams—issued a statement expressing full, unconditional support for government measures to eradicate online scam networks and sites.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The United States has imposed visa restrictions on 32 individuals connected to the Prince Group transnational criminal organization (TCO) and others for their involvement in online scam operations targeting Americans. www.state.gov/releases/off...
state.gov
Announcing Steps to Impose Visa Restrictions on 32 Individuals Connected to Prince Group TCO & Others Scamming Americans - United States Department of State
Today, the Department of State is taking steps to impose visa restrictions on 32 individuals responsible for or complicit in defrauding Americans through cybercrime, cyber-enabled crime, and related a...
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@support.bsky.team @bsky.app My W Social account: ⁠noansereboth.wsocial.eu⁠ was suspended, and W Social support advised me to contact Bluesky moderation to review the AT Protocol network-level hold. Could someone from the safety team please assist or check my appeal? Thank you!
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
An Interior Ministry spokesperson said that an Australian victim of an online financial scam was repatriated from Cambodia to Australia.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Cambodian authorities arrested three suspects on suspicion of involvement in an online scam today in Serei Saophoan, Banteay Meanchey province.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Equipment confiscated from online scam operations, stored at the Phnom Penh Municipal Police Headquarters following crackdowns.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A Commercial Affairs Department signboard of the Singapore Police Force seen inside a sealed major scam compound in #8 Park during a press tour.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The National Bank of Cambodia has placed Chief Bank under the temporary administration of Baker Tilly for three months due to regulatory non-compliance.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Cambodia today opened the sealed #8 Park—one of the largest former scam compounds—to reporters. The media tour comes ahead of an international conference on combating online scams, which will be held this Wednesday in Phnom Penh.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Cambodia deported 164 Chinese nationals for illegal entry, illegal stay, online scams, and drug use.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
During a press conference this week, a Cambodian government official reported that nearly 400,000 foreigners left the country during a crackdown on online scams. The official warned that because they have cyber-scamming skills, they pose a potential threat to the countries they travel to.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Anti-Corruption Unit arrested the commune chief of Prek Ksach commune, Kirisakor district, Koh Kong province, and three other people, including a Chinese national, for organizing a location for an online scam network.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Today, Cambodia deported 11 Thai nationals following serving their prison terms and illegal stay.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The opposition Nation Power Party said its district youth leader was arrested yesterday. Cambodia will hold commune council elections next year.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
British authorities have frozen a $72-million property in London in connection to an alleged associate of the Prince Group, the sanctioned Cambodian conglomerate accused of operating cyber-fraud compounds staffed in part by trafficked workers www.occrp.org/en/news/uk-f...
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UK Freezes $72-million London Townhouse in Connection to Sanctioned Prince Group Associate
British authorities have targeted a luxury townhouse in London belonging to a China-born Cypriot citizen named Zhao Chen. Official documents cite the property's connection to a man the U.K. and U.S. a...
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Newly appointed German Ambassador Silke Röfer presents her credentials to Acting Head of State Hun Sen.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Cambodian Defense Minister Tea Seiha will travel to China to attend the 13th Beijing Xiangshan Forum, held from September 15 to 17. On the sidelines of the forum, he will hold bilateral discussions with Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun and other foreign counterparts.
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