The move comes as the country’s government faces growing scrutiny for its role in handling an explosion of online scam centers and organized crime.

Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha has received a royal pardon from his 27-year treason sentence.

PHNOM PENH, May 25 — Cambodia’s king has pardoned former opposition leader Kem Sokha for a treason conviction, just weeks after he lost an appeal to overturn that verdict,...