Singer Returns to TV 9 Years After Shooting
| November 21, 2016 |

Pov Panhapich, a beloved singer and television host who was paralyzed when she was shot twice in February 2007, returned to television for the first time on Friday with a performance on Cambodia News Channel (CNC).

Seated in a padded wheelchair with CNC hosts at her side, Ms. Panhapich smiled as she sang “Traces of Love,” a song about a women sacrificing her life for the man she loves, only to be betrayed.

The shooting of Ms. Panhapich, carried out by a masked man on a motorbike as she was walking to an English class in Phnom Penh, came in the wake of similar shootings of starlets, starting with the brutal murder of Piseth Pilika in 1999. A number of the young women were rumored to have been attacked by the jealous wives of ruling party officials.

Ms. Panhapich’s case, like those of the other performers, remains unsolved...
Cambodia Daily

[Nine years ago..]
Police Claim Breakthrough in Pov Panhapich Case
by Chhay Channyda | March 19, 2007
While popular singer Pov Pan­hapich remains confined to a Viet­namese hospital bed after being shot in Phnom Penh last month, po­lice may have identified at least one of her alleged assailants, an official said Thursday.

Police have arrested four men around Cambodia for possessing il­legal weapons since the 23-year-old singer and television host was shot on Norodom Boulevard, and at least one of them may be a suspect, Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak said.

An eyewitness has identified at least one of the men, but police have yet to come to any definitive con­clusions, Khieu Sopheak said...

When Pov Panhapich recovers and returns to Cambodia, police will ask her to identify the shooter, Khieu Sopheak said...
Cambodia Daily Archives.

[Strangely enough, the motive was never determined, and neither the victim nor the 'eye-witness' managed to identify the shooter. Pov Panhapich escaped with her life but will never walk again.]
A last word from the investigators:

Sok Khemarin, director of the penal police department at the Interior Ministry, said that the shooting of Ms. Panhapich was still being investigated, or at least it would be if anyone came forward with new information.

“We will keep investigating when the plaintiff or witnesses have any information; we will start working immediately,” he said, adding that catching the shooter was not easy.

“With each murder case, we cannot solve it immediately because the person who committed it is also sophisticated,” he said. “It is a bit difficult.”

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The shooting of Ms. Panhapich, carried out by a masked man on a motorbike as she was walking to an English class in Phnom Penh, came in the wake of similar shootings of starlets, starting with the brutal murder of Piseth Pilika in 1999. A number of the young women were rumored to have been attacked by the jealous wives of ruling party officials."

Yes, I bet much investigation and arrests were made around then by the competent authorities!