Saturday, December 02, 2006

Karaoke-Loving Students Rounded Up by the Police

Busted students (Photo: Bunry, Koh Santepheap newspaper)

Friday, December 01, 2006

By Kuch Naren
THE CAMBODIA DAILY


More than 100 high school students were rounded up by police Wednesday morning from five karaoke parlors in Phnom Penh's Daun Penh district, officials said. The wayward students and their early-morning warbling was reported to police by residents living nearby, said Theng Vannak, deputy bureau chief of the municipal minor crime department. The students, aged 14 to 22, were "re-educated" to not skip school but they were up to a lot more than playing truant, he said. "Those students not only sing but they have been using the karaoke rooms for drug use and committing debauchery," Theng Vannak said, adding that he would continue raiding guesthouse and karaoke parlors. The 101 students were released on guarantees from their parents of better behavior.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

There is a general lack of discipline in Cambodia society; students skipping school is just one of many. Cambodia needs to work up its behavior. What astounds me is the social acceptant of the misdeed. No one say anything to disgust it. There is a long way to go my friend.

Anonymous said...

Now, if the government were as vigilant about their own internal affair...ala corruption, as they would these students, then we shall begine to discuss behavioral issues.

Anonymous said...

that what yhe Viet is doing kille our culture and spirit!

Reforme the Cambodian royal Police force so we can hahe freedom to live our life!