Land

Hundreds of villagers from seven villages near Angkor in Khnat commune, Puok district and Teuk Vil commune, Siem Reap municipality, Siem Reap province, erupted in protest during the Apsara Authority's demolition, accusing them of building illegally as they feared forced evictions and homelessness, according to ...

The senior official of the Cambodian Mine Action Authority said that mine clearance has been the government’s top priority to ensure that people have lived a safe life after the war. ... ...

Seven villagers who are forest guards of the "Udom Sre Puos" community were questioned by the Kampong Speu Provincial Court on October 18 over a land dispute. ... ...

On the occasion of the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, an achievement unveiling ceremony took place in Beijing on Tuesday to mark the development of Cambodia’s Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone during the past 10 years under the Belt and Road Initiative. ... ...

The third global conference on assistance to landmine victims concluded in the capital of Cambodia on Thursday, vowing to carry out actions and policies to improve the lives of survivors and affected communities, a senior Cambodian official said. ... ...

The Chinese Communist Party has expressed its readiness to continue to support the first phase of the pentagonal strategy of the Royal Government of Cambodia for the seventh mandate. ... ...

Cambodia is hosting the Third Global Conference on Mine Victim Assistance from October 17-19 in Phnom Penh. Ly Thuch, first vice-president of the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA), led a delegation of conference participants on a visit to local NGO Exceed Worldwide on ...

Cambodia is ready to host the 5th Review Conference of the Mine Ban Treaty: Siem Reap Angkor Summit on a Mine-Free World, which will take place from Nov. 30 to Dec. 3, 2024. ... ...

The Sihanoukville Provincial Court of Appeal has decided to release two land activists on bail on charges of incitement and defamation in connection with a long-running land dispute in Koh Kong province. ... ...

Boeung Trabek community representative, Hour Seaklon, who is sitting in a house preparing vegetables for cooking with a sad face, told CamboJA that more than 40 families have not yet received land titles, despite promises from the authorities that will provide legal title after the ...

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has contributed tremendously and timely to Cambodia’s economic and social development, with achievements enjoyed by the government and people of the Southeast Asian country, Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Aun Pornmoniroth has said. ... ...

Officials from the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) reported that in the first nine months of the year, nearly 30 people were victims of unexploded ordnance (UXO), a reduction of around one third on the same period last year. ... ...

The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) approved 26 private ventures in September, totalling an investment of $256.65 million, projected to create 27,262 jobs. ... ...

More than a decade after subsidiaries of multinational rubber firm Socfin Group forcibly cleared and seized the farms, burial grounds and sacred forests of Bunong indigenous communities in Mondulkiri province, the company now seeks to collect tens of thousands of dollars from these farmers for ...

About 200 families in central Cambodia say they are in danger of losing hundreds of hectares of farmland – with or without compensation – to a Chinese gold mining company expanding its excavation area. ... ...

The wife of an Environment Ministry secretary of state denied knowledge of an alleged online scam gang inside a Phnom Penh apartment complex owned by her company. ... ...

532 hectares of Phnom Preah Chbar community forest and people’s land in Srey Snom district, Siem Reap province, have been cleared by CMAC of mines and other explosive remnants of war. ... ...

Like many of her neighbors in Kampong Cham, Seang Sinath borrowed tens of thousands of dollars to invest in a tycoon’s land scheme, falling into overindebtedness when the company stopped paying her back. ... ...

The Government of the People’s Republic of China and the Royal Government of Cambodia on Saturday issued a joint communique as follows: ... ...

The Ukrainian government has asked the Cambodian government to provide technical support and training personnel to conduct safe demining operations and to recover unexploded ordnance (UXO). ... ...

Ukraine expects to cooperate with the Kingdom of Cambodia in matters of humanitarian demining of Ukraine’s territory, as well as assistance in training specialists, searching for donors, interaction between relevant state institutions and the exchange of experience in this sector. ... ...

Sun Chanthol, Deputy Prime Minister and First Vice President of the Council for the Development of Cambodia, on Sep 11, visited Sihanoukville Port Special Economic Zone. ... ...

Cambodian officials have rebuffed recent calls by Amnesty International for UNESCO to address allegations of “forced evictions” around the Angkor Archaeological Park, dismissing the claims as baseless. ... ...

The human rights group Amnesty International has called on Unesco’s World Heritage Committee to address forced evictions at Angkor Wat as its 45th annual meeting begins Sunday in Saudi Arabia. ... ...