Land

The government has ordered the Ministry of Environment to work with the relevant authorities to grant Koh Kong province villagers land from Union Development Group (UDG), a Chinese company, following a long-standing dispute. ...

The governor of Samrong city, Oddar Meanchey province, issued a letter on Tuesday, ordering villagers to remove huts, houses and other structures from the Roluos Thom Natural Eco Tourist Site, after allegedly moving onto the land illegally. ...

Police in Siem Reap Province’s Chikreng district handed more than 20 pieces of unexploded ordnance over for destruction after they were found underground when land was being excavated. The Cambodia Self-Help Demining NGO said it cooperated with district police forces on Tuesday after soil excavators ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen chastised the head of the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC), Cambodia’s leading demining organisation, on Thursday during a speech to close out the National Strategic Plan of Mine Action Conference . ...

Two men have been killed and another seriously injured in two separate incidents involving unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Banteay Meanchey and Preah Vihear this week. According to Heng Ratana, the director-general of Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC), a farmer in Oddar Meanchey province’s Preah Net ...

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 ...

Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court on Sunday charged four out of six villagers over the clearing of land in Stung Hav district, a rights worker said yesterday. Cheap Sotheary, Adhoc’s provincial coordinator, said military police officers arrested six people who were on disputed land owned by ...

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 ...

Nearly 300 residents representing more than 500 families locked in several land disputes in Koh Kong province gathered yesterday to once again petition the Land Management Ministry to speed up resolutions after years of alleged inaction by the government. ...

Chinese-owned company Union Development Group has transported hundreds of posts to a disputed area it plans to develop in Botum Sakor district in Koh Kong province, exacerbating fears among villagers that the company will demarcate land they claim is theirs. ...

Plans appear to be in the works to develop a central stretch of prime riverfront real estate currently owned by a state-run enterprise into a sprawling commercial development, according to sources involved with the landowner, though key government officials professed to be in the dark ...

Nearly 300 families in Phnom Penh’s Boeung Trabek area will be granted land titles, a surprise move punctuated with a reminder to residents to cast a vote for the ruling party in July’s elections. The area in Chamkarmon district has been the site of land ...

Thirteen families who live along the road to late Khmer Rouge commander Ta Mok’s house in Oddar Meanchey province’s Anlong Veng district filed a complaint with authorities on Tuesday after being told they would not get land titles. ...

A group of villagers from a community forest inside Preah Vihear province’s Phnom Tnout Wildlife Sanctuary are collecting thumbprints to evict a family that has been protecting the forest from illegal logging and preventing poaching of endangered species. ...

The Koh Kong Provincial Court on Tuesday heard the testimony of 13 families locked in a land dispute with Chinese company Union Development Group (UDG) after their crops and property were razed. ...

Boeung Kak community land activist Tep Vanny is making another bid for release in a case that sent her to prison over a 2013 protest outside the home of Prime Minister Hun Sen. Vanny’s sister, Huot Chansovann, filed a petition on Monday to Hun Sen’s ...

The government has signed off on a proposal to designate more than 9 hectares of land along Phnom Penh’s riverfront as state-private land, opening it up for private investment or long-term leasing. The 9.25-hectare stretch of riverfront from the capital’s Night Market to the Chroy ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday ordered the Minister of Land Management to check on and handle more than 580 land plots for citizens properly to end a land dispute on Koh Rong in Preah Sihanouk province. ...

The government will “take back” land on roughly 30 islands from private companies that have not made progress on planned developments, Prime Minister Hun Sen said in a speech on Monday that also targeted land-grabbing villagers and idle provincial governors. ...

The Preah Sihanouk provincial authority is now distributing land titles to nearly 300 families in Koh Rong and Koh Rong Sanloem communes after the government decided to reallocate more than 520 hectares of state land to people living there. ...

Koh Kong officials are looking into claims that residents of Bak Roneas village affected by a massive project by the company Union Development Group were not properly compensated. The villagers filed a complaint with Prime Minister Hun Sen’s cabinet early this year, claiming they did ...

The Cambodian Mine Action Authority said yesterday that the country needs more than $400 million to clear mines and explosive remnants of war from 2018 to 2025, on an area larger than 1,970 square kilometres. ...

The Appeal Court has rejected a plea from two Boeung Kak activists to restart an investigation into a nighttime attack on lake residents, journalists and others in 2013 at Phnom Penh’s Wat Phnom by thugs and plainclothes police officials. ...

Six ethnic Kuoy villagers, citing fear of arrest, refused to appear for questioning in Preah Vihear on Wednesday over the confiscation of four pieces of equipment being used to clear community land by a subsidiary of the Chinese sugar company Rui Feng. ...