Cambodia bans selling, drinking alcohol during upcoming commune polls


PHNOM PENH (Xinhua): Cambodia's Ministry of Tourism on Tuesday (May 24) issued a directive to ban selling and drinking all types of alcohol for two days -- a day before and on the commune election day.

The move is to help ensure that the commune election on June 5 is free and fair without violence, threat, intimidation and incidents, which could be compromised by alcohol consumption, Ministry of Tourism's permanent secretary of state Tith Chantha said in the directive.

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