Phnom Penh Post - Abuser takes out rage on kindly neighbours
A kind-hearted neighbour family got more than they bargained for when giving refuge to a victim of domestic violence in Meanchey district’s Chbar Ampov commune.
The battered woman had run next door after her husband came home in a fury and attempted to hit her. Further enraged at her escape, he began to hack at his neighbour’s door with a cleaver.
A complaint was lodged with the police but it was not apparent whether the horrid husband was arrested.
Koh Santepheap
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The villages between life and death 
Garment factory employees protest short-term contractsPolice are hunting the boyfriend of a woman found with her throat slit and multiple stab wounds in the early hours of yesterday in the
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