<p>A fire that ripped through a market in Battambang province’s phnom proek district late on Monday night caused somewhere between $1 million and $2 million in damages, according to local officials. The fire, which reportedly started at about&nbsp;11:30 p.m.&nbsp;and destroyed 244 stalls, was believed to have ...p>

<p>A provincial police officer appeared for questioning at the pailin provincial Court on Tuesday after military police, led by a local wildlife NGO founded by U.S. actress Angelina Jolie, caught him transporting more than 177 kg of illegally logged rosewood on Sunday. Sor phalla was arrested ...p>

<p>The documents concern a court case brought by representatives of Hong Kong-based Enviro Group Holdings Limited who are suing John Davies and Lim Lian Tho – both former company directors of phnom penh based subsidiary Enviro Corporation (Cambodia) Ltd – and Mark McCluskey, a lawyer ...p>

<p>About 1,500 representatives of military families in Oddar Meanchey province are planning to file a complaint directly to prime Minister Hun Sen’s office accusing a high-ranking Royal Cambodian Armed Forces general of selling a large chunk of their land to two Vietnamese rubber companies. The soldiers, ...p>

<p>Cambodia has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in Southeast Asia. The number of women dying during pregnancy or childbirth has dropped in recent years. But it is still far short of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals. The Cambodian government accepted those goals ...p>

<p>protecting mangrove will be a main agenda of the World Wetlands Day to be held on Feb. 2, 2021, according to a press release from the Fauna&amp;Flora International (FFI)-Cambodia programme and other partners. ...p>

<p>The French Government today granted EUR 1.5 million to the Mekong River Commission (MRC) to improve and expand its river monitoring network for better river monitoring and management of water infrastructure project operations along the mainstream and key tributaries of the Mekong. &nbsp; ...p>

<p>More than 300 families in Chhouk district, Kampot province have requested authorities to provide them with land titles in which they have lived for more than 20 years. ...p>

<p>Garment workers in phnom penh and Kandal, Takeo and Kampong Chhnang provinces have asked their companies to install water mist fans in the factory amid rising temperatures. ...p>

<p>Nearly 50 workers fainted on Saturday at a coat factory in the Tai Seng Special Economic Zone in Bavet City, Svay Rieng, a factory representative said Sunday. The incident was precipitated by one worker who fainted because she was already sick, setting off a chain reaction ...p>

<p>A Cambodian court on Tuesday afternoon released seven opposition party lawmakers-elect and one party activist on bail after the ruling and opposition parties reached a political agreement. “The eight politicians were released from phnom penh’s prey Sar prison at 4:45 p.m. after questioning judge Keo Mony ...p>

<p>&nbsp;On the second day of trial for nine NagaWorld union members accused of incitement, the phnom penh municipal court prosecutor claimed union leader Chhim Sithar had been directing an illegal protest while Sithar maintained she was merely participating in a legal strike aligned with labor ...p>

<p>Japan’s second-largest bank, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, officially opened a representative office in phnom penh on Friday. The office would serve as an information centre for potential investors and hoped to attract more Japanese companies, Masato Miyachi, general manager of the bank’s Asia and China division, ...p>

<p>Vietnamese businesses invested more than US$1.78 billion abroad last year, according to the planning and Investment Ministry’s Foreign Investment Agency (FIA). Among them, Tanzania was the leading investment destination for Vietnamese investors, in terms of registered capital and accounted for 34 per cent of Viet ...p>

<p>After receiving a letter from the Ministry of Economy and Finance on the request to take actions against the Radio Free Asia and the Voice of America located in Cambodia, which have been actively engaged in broadcasting and renting airtime from other radio stations yet ...p>

<p>Hun Manith, the second son of prime Minister Hun Sen, has suggested that the large turnout at the CNRp’s eighth consecutive day of marches through phnom penh on Sunday was the result of paying protesters to show up. An estimated 30,000 people gathered at Freedom park ...p>

<p>Cambodia’s small economy leaves it especially vulnerable to devastation in the face of large-scale natural disasters, United Nations agencies and Cambodian officials warned last week. “The relative size of an economy adds to the vulnerability as seen particularly in the case of the Lao peoples’ Democratic ...p>

<p>A phnom penh Municipal Court judge on Wednesday rejected the prosecution’s request that former Cambodia National Rescue party (CNRp) president Kem Sokha be rearrested for allegedly violating his bail conditions. ...p>

<p>Nearly 80 people representing 56 families in Daun Ov community, Sangkat Cheung Ek, Khan Dangkor, who are worried about eviction, have urged the phnom penh authorities to expedite the issuance of land titles. And on-site development. ...p>

<p>Thirteen employees at a puma-supplying factory have lost their jobs after participating in a union election earlier this year. ...p>