PM orders investigation into Koh Kong land grab
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday ordered the Koh Kong provincial governor to clarify reports that state mangrove forests in the province have been grabbed and filled with sand to create land for development. Speaking during the closing ceremony for an annual conference on decentralisation, Mr Hun ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50110227/pm-orders-investigation-koh-kong-land-grab/
Land confiscated from CPP lawmaker
The government has decided to confiscate nearly 3,000 hectares of land in Kandal province’s Kien Svay and Saang districts from CPP member Lork Hour after investigating a litany of lawsuits filed by local residents against the parliamentarian. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34026/land-confiscated-from-cpp-lawmaker/
Tycoon held in land case
Phnom Penh military police officials have arrested tycoon Sok Heng and some aides involved in a land dispute in Phnom Penh’s Prek Pnov district. ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5074196/tycoon-held-land-case/
Villagers ask for help in land disputes
Villagers in Preah Vihear province locked in land disputes with five economic land concessions belonging to sugar cane firms have urged provincial authorities to resolve their conflicts. Kroeun Vong, a villager representative in Chey Sen district, said ministry officials solved some cases by giving one hectare ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5099143/villagers-ask-help-land-disputes/
Poipet families protest for help in land dispute
Some 30 families from Poipet city’s Phsar Kandal commune yesterday protested in front of the Poipet Town Hall to demand intervention from authorities to resolve a land dispute with a man who claims to be an “adviser” to Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poipet-families-protest-help-land-dispute
Chhin chides ministry on ELCs
Deputy Prime Minister Bin Chhin, the Kingdom’s top authority in charge of resolving land disputes, slammed the Ministry of Agriculture over “shameful” irregularities in granting economic land concessions at the Environment Ministry’s annual meeting yesterday.During yesterday’s meeting, Chhin accused the Ministry of Agriculture of granting ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chhin-chides-ministry-elcs
Government threatens land rights protesters with legal action
The Commerce Ministry has threatened to take unspecified legal “measures” against anyone joining a protest against a sugarcane plantation who does not have a personal claim in the dispute. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-threatens-land-rights-protesters-with-legal-action-127079/
Ministry loves company
About 130 villagers and more than 20 of their children demonstrated in front of the Ministry of Land Management from 8am to noon yesterday, demanding that the government exclude their villages from a proposed development plan and protect their homes by granting them Land titles. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-loves-company
Chi Khor Leu land dispute resolution reached
Ninety-five out of the 317 families who were locked in a long-running land dispute with Oknha Ly Yong Phat’s sugar company since 2006 accepted the solution to end the dispute under a compromise negotiated by the Koh Kong provincial authority. Provincial deputy governor Sok Sothy, ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chi-khor-leu-land-dispute-resolution-reached
Land concessions responsible for large-scale deforestation in Cambodia
Land concessions for large-scale agricultural plantations are stripping off Cambodia’s forest cover, according to a new report by Forest Trends, a U.S.-based environmental protection group. ...
Morgan Erickson-Davis
http://news.mongabay.com/2015/08/land-concessions-responsible-for-large-scale-deforestation-in-cambodia/
Land Ministry issues more than 450,000 land titles
The Land Management Ministry has issued 456,210 Land titles so far this year. The ministry’s annual report, launched yesterday, said that it also resolved 105 out of 817 Land disputes it received; the National Land Dispute Authority solved two out of 81 cases. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50673867/land-ministry-issues-more-than-450000-land-titles
Social land concessions floated for residents hit by work on Sihanoukville canals
The Preah Sihanouk provincial administration has recommended those whose houses were torn down for encroaching on canals to seek social land concessions from the authorities. Provincial deputy governor Cheav Vichheak told The Post on Tuesday that Sihanoukville has five main canals with a cumulative length ...
Sihanoukville rents plummet as land prices stay stagnant
Sihanoukville, a once-sleepy seaside city in the Kingdom’s coastal province that has now become a ballooning enclave for Chinese-run construction and real estate, is now seeing house rental prices plummeting and land values stagnating. ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50687804/sihanoukville-rents-plummet-as-land-prices-stay-stagnant
Illegal land markers removed on Mondulkiri province plot
More than 200 markers planted illegally in Mondulkiri’s O’Raing district have been removed, with provincial authorities now on the lookout for those responsible for the crime. O’Raing district governor Siek Mony told The Post on Saturday that some 10 police officers went to Sen Monorom ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-land-markers-removed-mondulkiri-province-plot
Sar Kheng urges officials in Ratanakkiri to prevent crime
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng has urged Ratanakkiri provincial authorities to do more to eliminate crimes in the province. Speaking during the appointment ceremony of the chair of the Cambodian People’s Party’s working group for Ratanakkiri on Friday, Sar Kheng, who is also deputy prime ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-urges-officials-ratanakkiri-prevent-crime
Ministry to resolve all state land disputes by next year
Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday the Land Management Ministry has committed to resolving all disputes involving state Land in the Kingdom by next year. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50694708/ministry-to-resolve-all-state-land-disputes-by-next-year
ANZ compensates Cambodian families forcibly evicted to make way for sugar plantation
ANZ has agreed to compensate hundreds of Cambodian families who were forcibly evicted from their land to make way for a controversial sugar plantation and refinery. ...
Erin Handley
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-27/anz-compensates-cambodian-families-forcibly-evicted-sugar-plant/12006382
Soldiers, residents trade blame over illegal logging in Mondulkiri
Indigenous people in Mondulkiri province plan to file a complaint with the provincial court against a military officer from the Army Base “K1” in O’Raing district’s Dak Dam commune, for clearing forest land for personal ownership within the Phnom Nam Lear Wildlife Sanctuary. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/soldiers-residents-trade-blame-over-illegal-logging-mondulkiri
Governors told to look at public land seizures
The Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the Office of the Council of Ministers, Hing Thorasky, has issued a report ordering ministers and three provincial governors to check for irregularities among lower-level officers who have illegally seized public land. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/governors-told-look-public-land-seizures
‘Stop land grabs at archaeological sites’
The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts said last year, it cracked down on 18 cases of land grabs at archaeological sites, while 6,617 archaeological sites including burial places, ancient temples, ancient pagodas and irrigation systems across the country were registered for conservation. ...
Khorn Savi
https://phnompenhpost.com/national/stop-land-grabs-archaeological-sites