The legitimacy of a lawsuit filed by prominent businesswoman Chhin sokountheary, also known as “Crocodile Grandmother”, accusing Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktema of abusing his power by stealing some 34 hectares of privately owned land is being called into question by the Phnom Penh Municipal ss='cambodia-color'>...

As many as 40 workers are cutting down trees, marking other trees they plan to fell in protected forest areas and piling up luxury timber in a flood-safety zone in stung Treng’s srekor commune, a local official said yesterday. Commune chief seak Mekong said the workers ss='cambodia-color'>...

U.S. liSted gambling firm Entertainment Gaming ASia Inc. (EGA) will next month hold a grand opening for itS Second caSino on the Thai-Cambodia border, the company Said. In a Statement iSSued on Monday from Hong Kong, it Said that Dreamworld Club in Poipet, which haS been SS='cambodia-color'>...

As much as $16 billion of investment is needed in Cambodia over the next decade if the country’s infrastructure is to keep up with the pace of economic growth, ac­cording to a regional think tank. At a seminar in Phnom Penh on Thuesday, Jakarta-based Economic Research ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia saw a one per cent rise in inflation in April compared with the same month last year, according to the latest data from the National Institute of statistics (NIs). sim Ly, an official at the NIs said there was a slight increase in food and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cargo shipments moving in and out of the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) increased 29 per cent in the first six months of this year when compared to the same period in 2012, according to official data. The figures show that imported and exported goods amounted ss='cambodia-color'>...

CONSTRUCTION iS progreSSing on a $1.5 million baby-productS factory that will be among the largeSt in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ). Combi (Cambodia), which ownS the factory, announced the planS for itS new facility in an online job liSting yeSterday. The five-hectare factory waS Scheduled SS='cambodia-color'>...

Yet another resident of Phnom Penh’s sen sok district came forward yesterday to join “Crocodile Grandmother” Chhin sokoutheary in accusing city and district officials of issuing a false sub-decree to acquire land in the vicinity of Pong Peay Lake in Phnom Penh Thmey commune. Chea savean, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Violence broke out twice yesterday at the Maru Chuen garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district – first, between police and strikers, and later, between strikers and employees who remained at work. In the morning, seven workers and one police officer were injured after police intervened ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ten families locked in a long-standing land dispute with the Pheapimex Group in Pursat provinces’s Krakor district said yesterday that the company was refusing to recognise titles recently granted to them and blocking them from the land.“We 10 families have been given more than 30 ss='cambodia-color'>...

A community forest patrol group trying to fight the destruction of protected forest in Kratie province’s snuol district have, for the second time in two weeks, seized equipment from those they accuse of illegal logging. About 100 people from svay Chreah, snuol, sre Cha, Pi Thnou ss='cambodia-color'>...

When 46-year-old Than Thol got a $900 loan from Samic Microfinance laSt year, he took advantage of a little-known and&nbSp; lengthily worded inSurance program called MeaSure for Economic and Accelerated Development for All, or MEADA. MEADA provideS coverage for familieS of moStly lower-income borrowerS in the SS='cambodia-color'>...

Communities living in the protected snuol wildlife sanctuary in Kratie province said yesterday that the sanctuary was being destroyed by private companies acting in collusion with local wildlife officers. snuol forest community representative Mom sakim said private interests were claiming large areas of the sanctuary without ss='cambodia-color'>...

The French and German chambers of commerce have both merged into the larger European Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia in order to gain combined strength and be more effective as an interface between European business and the Cambodian government. The agreement is set to be formalised ss='cambodia-color'>...

Local cadastral land officials, a district governor and RCAF personnel all own plots of a social land concession in Preah Vihear originally intended to be distributed to poor villagers, local rights group Adhoc alleged. In 2007, the government granted 556 hectares of land in Choam Ksan ss='cambodia-color'>...

A tropical storm that raked Vietnam for the past two days has affected five Cambodian provinces, with severe flooding and damage in three of them. Tropical storm Mangkhut descended on Northern Vietnam on Wednesday and yesterday, deluging the Mekong River and flooding areas of Banteay Meanchey, ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 5,000 workers went on strike at the M&V garment factory in Kampong Chhnang province yesterday, adding to the list of incidents at the factory in the past two years that has also included mass faintings. Elsewhere, about 700 workers from the Pine Great (Cambodia) ss='cambodia-color'>...

Commune authorities in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadav district have allegedly banished a local resident for persisting with a lawsuit that accuses them of selling 500 hectares of community forest to two Cambodian developers for $300,000. Romas svang, who is a member of the ethnic Jarai minority, filed ss='cambodia-color'>...

Newly established Wat Phnom Airlines completed its maiden flight to Taiwan’s Taoyuan International Airport on July 10. But its predecessor, grounded Tonlesap Airlines, is said to owe the same airport more than $50,000 in landing fees. The local chartered carrier “is officially in business after it ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 4,000 employees at one of Asia’s largest garment-processing factories have stopped work, as union workers demand the company sever ties with a shareholder who ordered a military police presence there. Workers at sL Garment Processing (Cambodia) Ltd began demonstrating on Monday, about two weeks after ss='cambodia-color'>...