Land policy and administration

Global Witness says Cambodia’s ongoing land crisis is part of a larger global trend, one driven by economics and resource shortages. ...

Cambodia continues to lack an effective way to resolve land disputes, which remain a major destroyer of livelihoods for many families, according to a study released by the NGO Forum yesterday.The study examines 26 sample villages in Battambang, Kampong Speu, Pursat and Kampong Chhnang provinces, ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has issued a directive banning people from renting or selling border land to people from neigbouring countries in an effort to maintain Cambodia’s “national sovereignty and territorial integrity”. ...

Amid rising tensions, authorities in Tbong Khmum province yesterday pledged to intervene in a long-running land conflict between Dambe district residents and a Chinese company by demarcating the disputed area with wooden posts. ...

More than 200 families in Battambang’s Rokhakiri district are preparing to file a petition against local officials who they allege destroyed their homes on Monday in the Prey Tralach community forest. ...

A Tumpoun ethnic villager has received a summons to appear before the Ratanakkiri Provincial Court tomorrow over allegedly grabbing land from a local rubber plantation firm in Bakeo district. ...

Cambodia has issued a pamphlet to local authorities asking them to ban the practice of renting land to people from neighboring countries. From governors to district chiefs, officials were told to focus especially on Cambodians renting their land along the border to Vietnamese farmers. ...

Investigators from South Korea’s state-run deposit insurer have announced their largest overseas illegal assets haul ever after they tracked down and recovered large land holdings owned by a Korean fraudster near Phnom Penh.The haul, worth some $8 million, sheds light on the use of the ...

Now that the roads to Mondulkiri are better and driving to the province is much cheaper, provincial officials have found a new use for the dilapidated airport. ...

Kampong Speu provincial deputy governor Vey Samnang is scratching his head over a dispute between a company that operates a cashew plantation, Ouk Khun, in his province and villagers who say it grabbed their land and then installed electricity cables to electrocute them.  ...

The government has handed out the first 250 land titles to the more than 3,000 families in a World Bank-funded project for poor Cambodians that has been criticized by a local rights group for sticking many of those families with unusable land. ...

One of two women claiming to represent 163 families that won access to a swath of land in Sen Sok district after a prolonged dispute failed Wednesday to have her breach of trust and forgery charges thrown out of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court. ...

A broad spectrum of villager representatives, civil society organisations and government officials – large land-concession holders among them – met in the capital for the ninth year in a row yesterday to discuss the Kingdom’s seemingly intractable issue of land disputes. ...

Mong Reththy, a senator for the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and an agro-industrial tycoon, said land disputes between companies and local residents occur because of a lack of understanding on both sides. ...

Six families in Kratie have accused military officers of stealing 20 hectares of their land, destroying their crops and threatening them with rifles.​ ...

In the latest twist in a long-running dispute over a protected community forest in Battambang province, villagers disgusted by rampant land grabbing have begun scrambling for a piece of the action. ...

Ethnic minorities in Ratanakkiri province have accused local authorities of selling community forest land to a provincial court official and threatening to put them in jail, according to a complaint filed yesterday. ...

A few dozen of the staunchest activists from the evicted Boeng Kak, Borei Keila and SOS communities Monday announced that they had began a campaign of daily protests that will last for the next month to call attention to their ongoing land settlement grievances. ...

About 200 villagers gathered in Ratanakkiri’s provincial capital of Banlung town yesterday, calling for a resolution to a longstanding land dispute in the province’s gem-rich Bakeo district. ...

Local authorities in Kampong Speu province’s Oral district stand accused of selling off 370 hectares of protected land to different private buyers who have erupted into a dispute over who rightfully owns the area. ...

Farming families in Siem Reap province have asked local authorities to protect them from soldiers they say are trying to drive them from their land with intimidation tactics, including firing rifles close to villagers.Varin Commune Council member Prong Youn said yesterday that 123 families filed ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday heard the case of a businessman who was charged with fraud after he acquired the office of the municipal women’s affairs department in a 2012 land swap, but failed to hand over the property to a tycoon to whom ...

The Interior Ministry has ordered all governors of border provinces to watch land that is being rented to people from neighboring countries for farming, amid ongoing border disputes. ...

A cassava farmer received injuries to his legs and hands when an old bomb fuse went off near his home in Pailin province on Sunday after he threw a rock at it, police said yesterday. ...