{"id":777001216,"date":"2022-12-20T14:10:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T17:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777001216"},"modified":"2026-04-23T01:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:52:50","slug":"cambodia-5-arrested-after-hand-grenade-found-outside-nagaworld-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/cambodia-5-arrested-after-hand-grenade-found-outside-nagaworld-casino","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia: 5 arrested after hand grenade found outside NagaWorld casino"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Striking workers have been protesting for more than a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Cambodia.- Police in Cambodia have arrested<strong> five people<\/strong> after a hand grenade was found outside NagaWorld casino. According to media reports, a security zone was set up after a street cleaner moved the grenade. The grenade was detonated about two hours later and no one was hurt in the explosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been reported that CCTV shows the occupants of a Range Rover planting the device. Authorities said the case was probably related to gambling rather than terrorism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>General <strong>Chhay Kim Khoeun<\/strong>, deputy chief of the national police, told Fresh News that those arrested, comprising Chinese and Cambodian citizens aged between 23 and 36, have been sent to the Criminal Police Department of the Ministry of Interior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NagaWorld employees have been demonstrating outside the casino since December 18 2021 in protest against&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/nagacorp-confirms-cut-jobs-due-to-economic-crisis\" target=\"_blank\">NagaCorp\u2019s layoffs and pay cuts<\/a>. In November, the US Department of State issued a press statement saying it was deeply concerned by the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/cambodia-nagaworld-union-leader-arrested\" target=\"_blank\">arrest of Chhim Sithar<\/a>. The president of a labour union involved in a year-long dispute with NagaWorld was arrested after returning from a 12-day trade union conference in Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Cambodian authorities, as of November 26, 249 of the 373 employees have accepted seniority payments to put an end to their employment contracts with the company. However, 124 employees still refuse to accept the payments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Striking workers have been protesting for more than a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"A hand grenade was discovered and safely detonated outside NagaWorld casino in Cambodia, resulting in five arrests. While authorities suggest a gambling-related motive, the incident occurs amidst a protracted labor dispute between NagaCorp and its workforce, raising concerns regarding operational security and enterprise risk within the integrated resort sector.","focusai_entities":"NagaWorld, NagaCorp, Cambodian National Police, US Department of State, Chhim Sithar, Fresh News, Criminal Police Department of the Ministry of Interior, General Chhay Kim Khoeun","focusai_location":"Cambodia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.8), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), gambler_consumer (0.7), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"NagaCorp Security Posture","query":"What specific enhancements to physical security and crisis management protocols has NagaCorp implemented following this incident, and how are these being integrated into their broader enterprise risk management framework?"},{"label":"Labor Dispute Resolution","query":"What is the current status of negotiations between NagaCorp and the remaining 124 employees refusing severance, and what specific governance frameworks are being leveraged to achieve a sustainable resolution to the labor dispute?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[21297],"class_list":["post-777001216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-nagaworld"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777001216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777001216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777001216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777001237,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777001216\/revisions\/777001237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777001216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777001216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777001216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}