Housing Activist in Washington To Push for Cambodian Policy Reforms
Cambodian housing rights activist Tep Vanny is in Washington this week, seeking to increase international pressure on Cambodian authorities to end forced evictions and find resolutions to longstanding land disputes. Tep Vanny, a housewife who has emerged as a leader for Cambodian victims of forced evictions, ...
Men Kimseng
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/housing-activist-in-washington-to-push-for-cambodian-policy-reforms/1760036.html
River widening divides opinions
More than 30 families living near the Siem Reap River in Siem Reap’s Aranh Sakor village have sent a letter to Prime Minister Hun Sen and member of parliament Seang Nam, asking not to be evicted from their land because of the planned widening of ...
Boeng Kak families reach out to embassies, EU
Members of 34 families facing eviction from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak community yesterday called on five foreign embassies and the European Union to pressure the government into granting them land titles. They are among the 46 poor and untitled families living in Boeng Kak who have ...
Garment factories: Minimum wage raise scrutinised
The presidents of three unions have appealed to the Garment Manufacturing Association of Cambodia to improve the “miserable” living conditions of its workers by providing higher wages and better benefits, a letter received by the Post yesterday shows. The letter is dated March 2 and signed ...
More than 40 families given land to move off roadside
Preah Sihanouk provincial authorities provided plots of land to 45 families on Saturday after they agreed to move off a roadside in Sihanoukville’s Buon commune. Provincial Governor Kuoch Chamroeun said on Saturday during a land distribution ceremony that the 45 families squatted and lived on a ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50654899/more-than-40-families-given-land-to-move-off-roadside/
Villagers in Sihanoukville Ordered off Disputed Land
The Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court has ordered villagers living on disputed land in Sihanoukville to leave the area by Thursday, according to a statement released by th the court yesterday. “We wish to inform people living in Muoy commune’s Phuom Bei village that on August 9, ...
Embracing a place called home
Before this past September, Nov Borom, a 52-year-old mother of five, lived with both a tenuous housing situation and HIV. But through a collaboration of several NGOs who sought to provide Cambodia’s most vulnerable people with housing able to withstand the region’s rainy season and floods, ...
Sean Teehan and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/embracing-place-called-home
Police deport 7 Montagnards from Ratanakkiri to Vietnam
As 14 Montagnard asylum seekers continue to evade authorities in the forests of Ratanakkiri province, an official said Sunday that police deported seven “Vietnamese Jarai” from the northeastern province on Saturday. Ratanakkiri provincial police chief Nguon Koeun said border police arrested the seven on Saturday in ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-deport-7-montagnards-from-ratanakkiri-to-vietnam-76656/
26 families along Sangke River given land concessions with mixed response
Families living along the Sangke River have been asked by authorities to move to a new location due to plans to develop the area. Battambang provincial deputy governor Soeum Bunrithy said in a press conference yesterday that currently, there is a project to develop Sangke ...
More abused brides returning from China
Two Cambodian women will return home tomorrow after spending almost two years each living in China with abusive husbands, officials said yesterday.. ...
Srey Kumneth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21843/more-abused-brides-returning-from-china/
Hun Sen, Rainsy battle on overseas voters
Prime Minister Hun Sen and opposition leader Sam Rainsy have clashed over the issue of Cambodians living overseas being able to vote in elections. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17214/hun-sen--rainsy-battle-on-overseas-voters/
Two killed in separate UXO blasts
A 12-year-old boy and a 37-year-old farmer lost their lives over the weekend in UXO explosions in Battambang and Pailin provinces. ...
Lieng Sarith
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/two-killed-separate-uxo-blasts
Foreigners deported during census tops 500
More than 500 foreigners living illegally in Cambodia have now been deported to their home countries as a nationwide census continues, immigration officials said Wednesday. ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/foreigners-deported-during-census-tops-500-70000/
Authorities to relocate Tonle Sap Vietnamese
Kampong Chhnang provincial authorities plan to relocate around 1,000 Vietnamese people living on the Tonle Sap river in Kampong Chhnang town next Monday. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-relocate-tonle-sap-vietnamese
Wing, GmoneyTrans ink partnership deal
A South Korean phone-based money transfer company has partnered with Wing Specialized Bank to tap into remittance services for Cambodians living and working abroad. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/wing-gmoneytrans-ink-partnership-deal
City Gives Lakeside Land Detail
City officials said yesterday that an offer of land to people living near Boeung Kak lake would not force residents to relocate, following concerns about how the city would implement Prime Minister Hun Sen’s order. Villagers won 12.44 hectares of land for on-site housing at the ...
Water plant means eviction for families in Sihanouk
Despite authorities turning a blind eye to their villages for more than 15 years, about 2,000 families living near Preah Sihanouk province’s Kbal Chhay waterfall face imminent eviction to make way for a clean-water processing plant, officials said yesterday. Prime Minister Hun Sen’s recent bold move ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012062156930/National-news/water-plant-means-eviction.html
Cross at your own risk
Since he began making the perilous journey to Thailand to log rosewood 10 years ago, Sao Sophon* has had plenty of time to calculate the cost of dying. “When we cross the border to Thailand, our lives are equal to $80 or $90, because that is ...
May Titthara and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cross-your-own-risk
City Hall security guards tear up petition at land rights protest
About 80 activists from Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila and Boeng Kak communities protested outside City Hall on Monday morning, but were confronted by municipal security guards who prevented them from delivering a petition to the governor. Sar Soun, a representative of families from the Borei Keila ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-security-guards-tear-up-petition-at-land-rights-protest-58147/
NGOs demand ID cards for Kampuchea Krom
Three local NGOs are to request a meeting with the Interior Minister to discuss the granting of ID cards to Kampuchea Krom people living in Cambodia. ...
Zahron Sokry
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5080577/ngos-demand-id-cards-kampuchea-krom/