Hun Sen challenges critics to provide proof of border encroachment
Addressing critics of his diplomatic approach to the Vietnam border issue, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday made a public call for evidence of land encroachment and proposals for its solution. ...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/hun-sen-challenges-critics-to-provide-proof-of-border-encroachment/2896660.html
Anti-Corruption Unit closes probe into ex-governor’s flooded forest grab
The Anti-Corruption Unit closed its investigation into a Kampong Chhnang ex-governor whose vast tracts of protected flooded-forest land were confiscated amid a crackdown on illegal encroachment. ...
Mech Dara
https://vodenglish.news/anti-corruption-unit-closes-flooded-forest-case-against-ex-governor/
Hun Sen blames forest loss on population rise
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday blamed the Kingdom’s rising population as a factor contributing to deforestation. He also told government critics who lived on deforested land to return it to the authorities for replanting. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-blames-forest-loss-population-rise
Ethnic villagers reject Mega First cash offer
An ethnic community in Mondulkiri province has rejected a cash offer from a company that wants to clear thousands of hectares of forest locals claim as their own, saying they value the land more than money. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ethnic-villagers-reject-mega-first-cash-offer
Jailed senator to appeal search order
The Court of Appeal will on Monday hear opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour’s request to overturn a municipal court decision to seize his computer to reinvestigate the forged border treaty that landed him in prison in August. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/jailed-senator-to-appeal-search-order-101361/
Sacred site threatened by construction in Mondulkiri
Villagers in Mondulkiri province are protesting the construction of a Ministry of Mines vocational training centre on a piece of land they say is sacred with cultural significance to people across the province. ...
Phak Seangly and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sacred-site-threatened-construction-mondulkiri
Disgraced official will face no legal action for embezzlement
The disgraced former director of Koh Kong’s provincial agriculture department will not be prosecuted despite admitting to profiting from the illegal sale of state land, Agriculture Minister Veng Sakhon said on Monday. ...
Aun Pheap and Taylor O'connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/disgraced-official-will-face-no-legal-action-for-embezzlement-115331/
Poor ‘lack voice’ amid urban growth
Phnom Penh’s lack of a clear master plan for development has hurt its communities and allowed private developers to collude with authorities to push out poorer residents, speakers at a land rights conference said yesterday. ...
Phak Seangly and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poor-lack-voice-amid-urban-growth
White Building demolition soon to begin
The Ministry of Land Management yesterday announced that the decades-old White Building in the capital will be demolished starting July 17 in order to make way for a new 21-storey structure. ...
Ananth Baliga and Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/white-building-demolition-soon-begin
CPP commune chief arrested by ACU authorities
A CPP commune chief in Koh Kong province’s Sre Ambel district was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Saturday, with an official saying Tuesday that he had demanded exorbitant fees to sign land-sale documents. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-commune-chief-arrested-by-anti-corruption-authorities-86982/
China providing more funds for infrastructure
China is providing increased funds for building and repairing Cambodian roads, and for water and land transportation projects, said Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jian Guo at a workshop at the Senate yesterday called “One Belt, One Road.” ...
Men Sonita and Va Sonyka
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13032/china-providing-more-funds-for-infrastructure/
Interior minister orders strict enforcement of new traffic law
Interior Minister Sar Kheng held a “solidarity dinner” with some 500 traffic police on Wednesday, ordering them to be strong in dealing with infringing motorists ahead of the implementation of the new Land Traffic Law, officials said Friday. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/interior-minister-orders-strict-enforcement-of-new-traffic-law-93518/
Government discusses new draft law aimed at construction safety
Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction Chea Sophara on Thursday met for talks with members of the Supreme Council of Consultation and Recommendations over a draft law aimed at ensuring quality and safety in construction. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-discusses-new-draft-law-aimed-construction-safety
‘Advice’ for judiciary questioned
A transparency advocate yesterday cautiously greeted a plan for consultation between judges, prosecutors and Justice Ministry officials handling land dispute and other controversial cases, though an international lawyer said it could compromise judicial independence. ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/advice-judiciary-questioned
Assembly to question Phanimex director
The National Assembly’s bipartisan Anti-Corruption Commission will today question Phanimex Development director Suy Sophan, who has been at the center of a bitter land dispute with more than 150 families in Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila neighborhood. ...
KUCH NAREN
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/assembly-to-question-phanimex-director-70002/
Calls for mangrove protection
Mangroves and wetland areas in four coastal provinces are being illegally cleared and filled in order to grab land and build homes for private ownership, said a letter from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries dated November 19. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/calls-mangrove-protection
Senior cop warned on building canal
The Takeo provincial Environment Department on Monday warned authorites would take legal action against a senior police official in Koh Andet district who tried to use a vehicle to clear land illegally in the protected lake Boeung Prek Lapouv. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/senior-cop-warned-building-canal
Charges dropped against ‘forest clearance’ officials
A former investigating judge at Kampong Speu provincial court has dropped charges against two senior environment officials who had been sued for “malicious denunciation, forest clearing and land grabbing for private ownership”. The case dates back to 2010. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/charges-dropped-against-forest-clearance-officials
Cham muslims protest government’s planned road beside mosque
About 200 Cham Muslims turned out to the Al-Serkal Mosque near the old Boeng Kak lake in Phnom Penh on Friday to protest a controversial road that the government plans to build through the mosque’s land. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cham-muslims-protest-governments-planned-road-beside-mosque-112899/
Loggers threaten Cambodian forest and wildlife preserve
A protected forest and wildlife sanctuary in northern Cambodia’s Preah Vihear province has come under threat of illegal logging, with migrants to the area and soldiers clearing land and cutting down trees, sources say. ...
Hang Savyouth
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/threaten-10132015165540.html