The Taiwanese YouTuber Goodnight Chicken was arrested in Cambodia after staging a fake livestreamed kidnapping in Sihanoukville, leading to a two-year prison sentence.
Goodnight Chicken
Chen Neng-chuan, better known by his online alias Goodnight Chicken, is a Taiwanese YouTuber and live streamer. He is known for his livestreams exploring abandoned areas and buildings and for investigating paranormal activities. Chen became a prominent content creator in 2020 after discovering a mummified body in a hospital that he was exploring, which helped solve a missing persons case. In 2024, he was arrested after staging a kidnapping on a livestream in Cambodia, and was subsequently sentenced to two years in prison.
Cambodia
Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia. It is bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the north, and Vietnam to the east, and has a coastline along the Gulf of Thailand in the southwest. It spans an area of 181,035 square kilometres, dominated by a low-lying plain and the confluence of the Mekong river and Tonlé Sap, Southeast Asia's largest lake. It is dominated by a tropical climate. Cambodia has a population of about 17 million people, the majority of which are ethnically Khmer. Its capital and most populous city is Phnom Penh, followed by Siem Reap and Battambang.
Sihanoukville
Sihanoukville, also known as Kampong Saom or Preah Sihanouk, is a coastal city in Cambodia and the capital of Preah Sihanouk Province, at the tip of an elevated peninsula in the country's south-west on the Gulf of Thailand. The city has a string of beaches along its coastline and coastal marshlands bordering Ream National Park in the east. It has one navigable river, the mangrove-lined Ou Trojak Jet, running from Otres Pagoda to the sea at Otres. Several sparsely inhabited islands under Sihanoukville's administration are near the city.