Ministries and other national bodies
Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction
Preah Vihear families agree to end land dispute
More than 100 families in Preah Vihear province have accepted a resolution from provincial authorities after about eight years of protests over a land dispute with authorities and a CPP lawmaker. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50513992/preah-vihear-families-agree-to-end-land-dispute/
Kratie villagers given land titles
The Ministry of Land Management yesterday handed out land titles to 885 families in Sambok and Chak Krang communes in Kratie province. A ceremony was held to distribute the land titles under the ministry’s Social Land Concession and Economic Development project in the province. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50507372/kratie-villagers-given-land-titles/
Land dispute settled in Koh Kong
Officials with the Land Management Ministry and Koh Kong Provincial Hall yesterday ended a years-long land dispute between villagers and sugar companies through distribution of compensation to the families involved. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50507031/land-dispute-settled-in-koh-kong/
Protesters not happy with ministry’s offer
Some 200 villagers from Koh Kong province in a longstanding dispute with the Koh Kong Sugar Industry Co Ltd were prevented by the capital’s Daun Penh district authorities from protesting at the home of Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday. On Monday, the Ministry of ...
Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/protesters-not-happy-ministrys-offer
Land win for satellite city families
Nearly 400 families in Prek Takong I village have won a five-year battle to regain control of land earmarked for a new satellite city being developed by ING Holdings. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50505752/land-win-for-satellite-city-families/
Dispute with tycoon was settled by the court, Land Ministry says
The Ministry of Land Management on Monday said it cannot help the 292 families involved in a land dispute with Oknha Sieng Chan Heng’s Heng Aphivath Company in Kandal province’s Kandal Stung district, because a court verdict has already found the land to be the ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dispute-tycoon-was-settled-court-land-ministry-says
Kandal villagers petition ministry in HAC dispute
Thirty villagers from Kandal province, representing 292 families who are locked in a land dispute with the Heng Akphivath Company (HAC), petitioned the Ministry of Land Management on Monday, seeking to obtain land titles. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kandal-villagers-petition-ministry-hac-dispute
Land petitioners return to capital
Three groups made up of nearly 100 people in land disputes from Siem Reap, Koh Kong and Kandal provinces gathered yesterday in front of the Ministry of Land Management and the Prime Minister’s cabinet office asking the institutions to resolve their problems. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50504866/land-petitioners-return-to-capital/
Still no solution to land dispute
Two groups of villagers representing more than 500 families locked in land dispute cases in multiple provinces once again rallied at the Ministry of Land Management and Ministry of Environment yesterday, appealing to authorities for a solution. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50503732/still-no-solution-to-land-dispute/
Koh Kong protesters again return to ministry
Nearly 100 residents representing 210 families in Koh Kong province’s Kiri Sakor district that are in a dispute with Chinese company Union Development Group gathered in front of the Land Management Ministry once again yesterday to demand that officials settle their cases. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50502801/koh-kong-protesters-again-return-to-ministry/
Koh Kong urged to solve land dispute
An official with Koh Kong’s provincial land department said yesterday that the department will cooperate with the Industry Ministry to resolve a land dispute case between a group of civil servants and their superior. ...
Ven Rathavong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50502316/koh-kong-urged-to-solve-land-dispute/
Koh Kong families to receive land titles
The Koh Kong provincial governor announced yesterday that land for 175 families locked in a dispute with sugar companies in Botum Sakor and Sre Ambel districts has been charted and is ready to be distributed. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50501834/koh-kong-families-to-receive-land-titles/
Government earns $366m from construction sector
The government collected more than $366 million in revenues from the construction sector from 2013 to 2017, mostly from land registration and cadastre, construction, land leases, and property title transfer services, according to a recent government report. ...
Sum Manet
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50501230/government-earns-366m-from-construction-sector/
UDG to pay for damaged crops
A total of 13 out of 14 families locked in a land dispute with the Union Development Group in Koh Kong province on Tuesday accepted a compensation offer over crops destroyed by the company in January. Negotiations are also under way with the one family ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50500685/udg-to-pay-for-damaged-crops/
Preah Vihear families seek land dispute solution
Almost 150 people representing some 253 families from Preah Vihear province’s Choam Ksan district travelled to Phnom Penh on Tuesday to seek help from the authorities to resolve an ongoing land dispute. The families, who have been evicted from their villages, had also petitioned the ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-families-seek-land-dispute-solution
Residents rally over OCIC land dispute
Hundreds of residents locked in a land dispute with the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district yesterday submitted a petition to the Land Management Ministry. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50497921/residents-rally-over-ocic-land-dispute/
Feasibility study to begin in Koh Kong
The government has announced the approval of a feasibility study to be conducted in Koh Kong province, signalling to demonstrators who have been rallying in front of the Land Management Ministry office in Phnom Penh that their land dispute may come to a close. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50493620/feasibility-study-to-begin-in-koh-kong/
Villagers again flock to Land Ministry
About 70 people representing thousands of Kampong Speu province households yesterday gathered once again in front of the Land Management Ministry to appeal to the authorities to take action against three rubber plantations and a sugar cane plantation over more than 2,000 hectares of disputed ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50492515/villagers-again-flock-to-land-ministry/
Koh Kong land dispute to be reinvestigated
The Land Management Ministry on Friday announced that it will solve a land dispute in the province following a weeks-long demonstration by hundreds of villagers who descended upon the ministry’s office in Phnom Penh. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50491767/koh-kong-land-dispute-to-be-reinvestigated/
Protesters block road to ministry
Around 300 people representing hundreds of families in Koh Kong province, who were evicted from their homes to make way for a sugar company owned by businessman and CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat, blocked the road that leads to the Ministry of Land Management on ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/protesters-block-road-ministry
Villagers locked in land dispute dispersed by the authorities
About 100 security personnel were deployed yesterday to evict 600 residents who have been occupying Wat Chas pagoda in Chroy Changva district after they refused to retreat pending a Land Management Ministry decision on a petition to solve land disputes in three provinces. ...
Pech Sotheary and Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50490636/villagers-locked-in-land-dispute-dispersed-by-the-authorities/
Hundreds of villagers demand their land
More than 100 Koh Kong province villagers returned to the Land Management Ministry office in Phnom Penh demanding that the authorities speed up the distribution process of three hectares of land owed to each family as compensation in two districts after authorities declared it had ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50490635/hundreds-of-villagers-demand-their-land/
B Keila representatives demand settlements
Thirteen people representing 20 Borey Keila families gathered in front of the headquarters of the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) and Phnom Penh City Hall yesterday, demanding the two institutions accelerate the settlement. Each of the affected families is demanding accommodation in Andong village on the outskirts ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/b-keila-representatives-demand-settlements
Government preparing to give villagers land
The Preah Sihanouk provincial department of land management is preparing to allocate 964.64 hectares of land to villagers in Kampong Seila district. According to a sub-decree dated March 12 and published in the Royal Gazette earlier this year, the government decided to designate 932 hectares ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50487735/government-preparing-to-give-villagers-land/