Lured into lawless corners


EARLIER this month, dozens of Vietnamese dashed out of a casino compound in Cambodia’s Kandal province, pursued by men swinging metal rods. They flung themselves into the Binh Di River in a desperate bid to swim to Vietnam on the other side.

Forty of them got away. Of the remaining two, one was recaptured by casino guards. The other one, a 16-year-old boy, drowned.

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