Illness strikes Borei Keila evictees
Woes continued for 26 relocated former Borei Keila residents, who fainted after vomiting and suffering diarrhoea at Tuol Sambo Village in Dangkor district’s Prey Veng commune on Saturday. Khum Khern, village chief of Tuol Sambo, told the Post that most of the villagers who had fainted ...
Rare win for villagers in battle with tycoon
In a rare siding with villagers, government officials earlier this week rejected a proposal by tycoon Kith Meng to develop the area surrounding Boeung Prek Tub lake in Preah Sihanouk town and instead vowed to issue proper land titles to residents. ...
Hundreds of Villagers Block Road to Protest Land Clearing
About 400 villagers in Kratie province’s Snuol district blocked national road 76A for three hours yesterday to demand that authorities release a villager who had been arrested earlier in the day for allegedly inciting villagers embroiled in a land dispute, villagers and a district official ...
Boeng Kak Families Protest for More Land Titles
About 100 residents of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak area protested in front of City Hall yesterday to demand that 58 more families be given titles to homes from which they are being evicted. In August, Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered that a 12.44-hectare section of the ...
Boeng Kak Protesters Burn Effigies of ‘Bad Officials’
About 100 residents of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak community took to the streets yesterday dragging straw and cloth effigies representing local officials who are attempting to evict them. ...
Borei Keila Residents File Land Transfer Complaint
One hundred and thirty-five families evicted from the Borei Keila community filed a complaint with the Council of Ministers and Finance Ministry yesterday against Phnom Penh Municipality for trying to transfer to the Phanimex company land belonging to the community, a resident said. ...
Petition timed to Hu’s visit stymied by police
Two villagers from Koh Kong province involved in a land dispute with a Chinese company were detained for questioning on Saturday afternoon, halting their plans to file a petition with the Chinese embassy during President Hu Jintao’s visit. Thirty-three other villagers who had planned to deliver ...
Cops ejected from Boeung Kak press event
Boeung Kak lake residents yesterday accused commune police of not fulfilling their duty of keeping them safe, forcibly expelling a number of officers from a press conference called to highlight the problem. ...
Villagers to continue road block
About 700 villagers in Kratie province’s Kampong Damrei commune will continue their protests today to persuade provincial authorities to release one of their representatives, villagers said yesterday. Representative Bun Sithet said the villagers, who are involved in a land dispute with Kasotim company, would protest outside ...
Residents From Borei Keila Push Back Police
About 40 former Borei Keila residents yesterday pushed back roughly 100 police and military police who threatened to demolish temporary shelters belonging to 16 families still clinging to their land, residents and rights groups said. Prampi Makara district police armed with riot shields, military police and ...
Siem Reap families protest over lack of land deeds
Fifty-nine families living in Siem Reap’s Slor Kram commune protested to urge the authorities to speed up the process of giving them land deeds, saying they have been waiting three years already. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/siem-reap-families-protest-over-lack-land-deeds
Preah Sihanouk authorities warn land grabbers of legal action
Preah Sihanouk provincial authorities have announced they would not recognise the more than 200 families who had illegally built makeshift huts and planted boundary markers on state and private land at Rithy II village in Stung Hav district’s Keo Phos commune. Stung Hav district governor ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-sihanouk-authorities-warn-land-grabbers-legal-action
KRP chief preparing land grab appeal
The president of the Khmer Rise Party, Sok Sovann Vathana Sabung is preparing a request for Prime Minister Hun Sen to review the cases of 224 families who claim irregularities after buying plots of land in Kandal province from Bun Chan Krishna’s JameCam Company. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/krp-chief-preparing-land-grab-appeal
Land activists summoned by court
Phnom Penh Municipal Court has issued summons for three Borei Keila and Boeng Kak land activists following a complaint filed by the owner of the Phanimex company, who accused them of extortion and property damage. The activists were identified by the court as Im Srey ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50543369/land-activists-summoned-by-court/
Cambodian villagers call for protection, mull lawsuit against military unit in land dispute
Villagers in northwestern Cambodia’s Siem Reap province on Wednesday called for local authorities to protect them and said they are considering legal action against a military unit they claim is threatening them in a bid to take over their farmland. ...
Hang Savyuth
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/dispute-10212015183332.html
Six years on, families evicted for sugarcane plantation still in limbo
Some six years after 2,000 families were evicted from their land in northeastern Cambodia, they have still not received compensation and are living with few means, rights workers say. ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/six-years-on-families-for-sugarcane-plantation-still-in-limbo/3029936.html
Cambodian villagers ask for missing compensation for confiscated land
Eighteen Cambodian families whose land was confiscated for the construction of a Chinese hydropower dam in a northwestern province on Thursday requested that the local government and Chinese operator of the facility pay them compensation they are owed, said a local resident and an official ...
Morm Moniroth
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/villagers-ask-for-missing-compensation-for-confiscated-land-09172015152530.html
Families near airport push for land titles
About 600 families living next to Phnom Penh International Airport urged the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA) yesterday to help speed up the process of giving them titles to their land. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34640/families-near-airport-push--for-land-titles/
Land protestors march on US embassy
Residents of two property development sites marched to the US embassy Monday, sources said . ...
Boeng Kak Evictees Continue Fight for Land Titles
About 50 Boeng Kak residents protested outside Prime Minister Hun Sne’s Peace Palace yesterday and submitted a petition to the Council of Minister asking for land titles in their long-running dispute with a company part-owned by CPP senator Lao Meng Khin. ...