Cambodia has carried out a massive raid on scammer gangs, detaining more than 2,000 people amid pressure from China to crack down on its online fraud industry.
Nearly 1,800 Chinese nationals were among those held, according to the Cambodian interior ministry.
A ministry statement said that Cambodian police had conducted a large-scale enforcement operation on Saturday morning at an online fraud compound in Bavet, the largest city in the southeastern province of Svay Rieng, which borders Vietnam.
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A total of 2,044 foreigners were detained, of whom 1,792 were from mainland China, five from Taiwan, and 177 from Vietnam.
A further 179 were Myanmar nationals, the ministry said, with the rest hailing from neighbouring Southeast and South Asian countries.
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The statement did not say if Cambodia intended to extradite the foreign suspects to their home countries.
