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Draft of New Public Land Policy Is Released

The government on Friday released a draft of a new public policy guide on the county’s contentious land sector, a move that was welcomed by NGOs, who also called for the government to hold further consultations on the draft. Local rights groups have singled out ...

http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/draft-of-new-public-land-policy-is-released-20672/

2012 Sees Jump in Land Disputes and Grants

Economic land concessions remain a major concern, with more than 230 people arrested in 2012, an increase of more than 150 percent from the year before, according to an annual report by the rights group Adhoc. That means land conflicts have increased, Thun Saray, president ...

http://www.voacambodia.com/content/two-thousand-two-land-dispute-jump/1604014.html

Protest blocked by security guards

About 250 villagers who turned out in Preah Vihear province’s Srayong commune to protest against alleged land-grabbing by rubber firm Siladamich Company yesterday found themselves blocked by company security guards and police, though arrests threatened a day earlier failed to materialise, villagers said. Villager representative Meas ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011101852179/National-news/protest-blocked-by-security-guards.html

Mob breaks evictee into home

A PROTEST on the fifth storey of a residential high-rise in Borei Keila ended with authorities fleeing the scene and incensed villagers breaking down a door yesterday. About 50 villagers converged on the site to protest against Phan Imex and authorities evicting a man from his ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011122253561/National-news/mob-breaks-evictee-into-home.html

Jarai man gets day in court

A Ratanakkiri Provincial Court prosecutor yesterday summoned an ethnic minority Jarai man in O’Yadav district to explain to the court his allegations that local authorities had threatened to kill him for exposing a land-sale corruption racket. Romas Chhvang, 45, filed a complaint to the court at ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011111552760/National-news/jarai-man-gets-day-in-court.html

Villagers facing re-eviction

Villagers evicted from the former Sambok Chab community in the capital’s Dangkor district in 2006 face eviction for the second time – this time without any compensation, evictees told the Post yesterday. According to villager Heng Pheng Chun, 26, authorities in Por Sen Chey district have ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012092658910/National-news/villagers-face-eviction-again-in-phnom-penh.html

Volunteers Being Phase 2 Of Land-Titling Program

More than 2,000 student volunteers yesterday were sent to measure land in 19 provinces, starting the second phase of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s nationwide land-titling program. Of the 2,016 volunteers, 1,362 are new and the rest are returning for the second time. ...

http://cambodiadaily.org/

Families ask PM to help end dispute

About 500 families from three communes in Siem Reap province’s Chi Kraeng district are seeking the prime minister’s intervention in a dispute with a rubber company over 1,000 hectares of land. Siem Reap provincial governor Chan Sophal said on Wednesday that Cambodian People’s Party lawmaker Seang ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012050455969/National-news/letter-to-premier-families-ask-pm-to-help-end-dispute.html

Land deals? Leave the Red Cross out of it: PM

Prime Minister Hun Sen publicly castigated the Kampong Thom provincial governor in a speech on Saturday for allegedly claiming a large portion of land and saying it was needed for the local office of the Cambodian Red Cross, an agency lead by Hun Sen’s wife, Bun ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012102959451/National-news/land-deals-leave-the-red-cross-out-of-it.html

Part of tycoon’s ELC to be granted to villagers

The Preah Sihanouk province land management committee is in the process of issuing land titles for 82 families in a recently converted forest area, as well as from an economic land concession (ELC) belonging to the Mong Reththy Group. ...

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http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/part-tycoons-elc-be-granted-villagers

Two Officials Sacked over land 'graft'

Kampong Chhnang authorities had sacked the Teuk Phos district governor and police chief after subordinate officers accused them of conspiring to sell almost 300 hectares of state-owned forest land to a private company, provincial officials said yesterday. According to a Kampong Chhnang official who declined to ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012090358445/National-news/state-forest-sold-two-officials-sacked-over-land-graft.html

Officials cheated me: farmer

A cassava grower in Siem Reap’s Srei Snom district has accused a district police chief and a deputy commune chief of cheating him out of his land after they doctored the grower’s testimony in a court case. Em Socheat, a lawyer for land owner Yem Savuth, ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012090458481/National-news/officials-cheated-me-farmer.html

Ministry official under scrutiny

Svay Rieng Provincial Court officials are investigating an employee of the Ministry of Interior who is accused of fraudulently selling his land to someone and not honouring the deal. Ros Sithan, a logistics department officer at the ministry, was arrested on the evening of September 28, ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012100359061/National-news/ministry-official-under-scrutiny.html

UN Rights Envoy Warns Against Continued Landlessness

Surya Subedi, the UN’s human rights envoy to Cambodia, expressed concern Friday over land concessions provided to private companies that are forcing people from their land in the provinces. “the royal government has the primary responsibility for respecting, protecting and fulfilling the rights of its ...

http://www.voanews.com/khmer-english/news/UN-Rights-Envoy-Warns-Against-Continued-Landlessness-151139815.html

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

Families plead for help to stop Pursat evictions

More than 70 families in Pursat province’s Anlong Tnort commune plan to send a letter to their provincial hall today compelling officials to stop a private farming company from tearing down their houses on its 3,000 hectare economic land concession. Ratanak Visal Development Co Ltd’s security ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012080957904/National-news/families-plead-for-help-to-stop-pursat-evictions.html

Land Protesters Go Missing En Route to Rally

Two land dispute protesters disappeared yesterday after being stopped by the police and detained while driving from Kratie province to Phnom Penh with a large group who intended to stage a protest in front of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house. About 200 villagers from Snuol district ...

Missing Land Protesters Were Arrested, Charged With Fraud

Two men from Kratie province who were removed from a vehicle on Tuesday while traveling to Phnom Penh to demonstrate at Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house over a land dispute, have been arrested by internal security police and charged with fraud, an official said yesterday. Sless ...

Oxley to acquire Cambodian asset for US$11.2m

In a release, Oxley Holdings Limited announced that the Group’s 49%-owned associated company, Oxley-Worldbridge (Cambodia) Co., Ltd., had entered into an amendment agreement dated 1 July 2013 in respect of a share sale and purchase agreement dated 22 May 2013 to acquire all the shares ...

http://sbr.com.sg/commercial-property/more-news/oxley-acquire-cambodian-asset-us112m#sthash.MwztrlYA.dpuf

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