Land

Representatives of 526 Koh Kong families hopped on their motos on Friday morning to deliver petitions to their district town halls calling for the return of land taken from them by a 2006 economic land concession (ELC), as well as compensation for lost crops.   ...

Former residents of Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila community on Wednesday handed petitions to the U.N.’s human rights envoy to Cambodia, requesting that she intervene in their feud with authorities after they were snubbed by City Hall earlier in the day.   ...

More than 100 residents from Svay Chrum village in Preah Vihear’s Choam Ksan district continued their second day of protests yesterday, attempting to claim back their land before being stopped again by provincial authorities despite a letter from the Ministry of Interior ordering authorities to ...

On Friday, it will have been a month since Prime Minister Hun Sen took the stage during the opening of the Environment Ministry’s palatial new headquarters in Phnom Penh to announce that 1 million hectares had been confiscated from wayward landholders and would be doled ...

Villagers involved in a land dispute in Preah Vihear province say police attempted to arrest one of their representatives on Wednesday after about 200 of them returned to reclaim their land, while the district governor said he was only seeking to speak with the villagers. ...

A forest fire near the Preah Vihear temple complex caused decades-old landmines and other unexploded ordnance to explode on Sunday, according to regional military commander Duong Sam Neang.   ...

Local rights group Adhoc has cried foul after roughly 1,200 square metres on 2 hectares of land that used to be home to an airport in Preah Vihear province have been granted to a local official to build a house. ...

One of Thailand’s leading agricultural groups and a major producer of animal feed will build a $30 million factory in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone, company officials announced last week. ...

Near the Thai border, in the Bovel district of Battambang province, today children can safely play outside. But not that long ago, what is now the local primary school’s playground was littered with dozens of mines. ...

The legal battle of 13 land rights activists from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood ended on Wednesday with the Supreme Court upholding their conviction for aggravated obstruction of public officials and illegal occupation. ...

The demarcation process of the Cambodia-Vietnam border covering three provinces is almost 90 percent done, according to a report on security and social order. ...

Two village representatives in Kampong Speu who were detained for protesting against the actions of their provincial authority were released yesterday by the provincial court after Prime Minister Hun Sen sent two of his sons to help deal with the situation. ...

Thai executives are encouraging their government to build business centers in Cambodian provinces that border the country, as well as in its other ASEAN neighbors, according to Thai media reports. ...

About 100 villagers from Kratie province came to the capital yesterday to submit a petition to the prime minister’s cabinet and the Interior Ministry requesting government intervention in a land dispute case that has seen three of their fellow residents arrested, according to village representatives. ...

About 65 villagers from Kampong Speu province’s Phnom Srouch district handed out petitions yesterday urging the National Assembly to push the provincial court into releasing two of their leaders.​ ...

A working group within Phnom Penh City Hall is continuing its effort to help get compensation to Borei Keila families who have yet to accept the government’s offer, according to a Facebook post from Governor Pa Socheatevong, who led a discussion with community members on ...

A Thai study being carried out on special economic zones (SEZ) in 15 provinces along the country’s borders has been welcomed by Cambodian and foreign businessmen, who say both countries can benefit, but some uncertainty remains over exactly where and when the zones will be ...

More than 250 Preah Vihear families who have been living under the threat of eviction since 2010 are to be allowed to keep their homes, according to a letter from the Interior Ministry obtained yesterday. ...

Two women were arrested on Friday for allegedly breaching a court order related to an ongoing dispute over 1,000 hectares of land they live on along with 165 other families in Kompong Speu province’s Phnom Sruoch district.   ...

More than 100 villagers from Chroy Changvar yesterday protested a draft sub-decree that would make Phnom Penh Municipality the legal owner of 280 hectares of land that are part of the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation’s $3 billion satellite city development. ...

Thirty-eight unexploded ordinances (UXO) and land mines of various models were found buried in a former Baktrea village jungle barracks yesterday, police said. ...

Activists have cast doubt on whether Prime Minister Hun Sen’s new initiative for the country’s problems to be solved through social media can tackle the country’s most pervasive problem—land disputes. ...

While vast tracts of Cambodia remain concentrated in the hands of a few and accusations of land grabbing remain rife, the broader distribution of land is more than equitable and could never lead to an uprising, the government official in charge of finding solutions to ...

A man from Pursat province’s Phnom Kravanh district was killed in an unexploded ordinance (UXO) blast on Sunday, according to police officials. ...