Social land concessions

The government has formed the “National Committee for Leading the Implementation of the Social Land Concession Programme for Joint Forest Protection and Sustainable Development” to ensure that social land allocated to disadvantaged individuals remains sustainable and that the surrounding forests are protected. ...

Seventy-TWO families in Kandal province left homeless by flooding have received land from the government to build houses after participating in a lottery for land allocation organised by the Provincial Administration on Monday. ...

Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction Chea Sophara urged that infrastructure construction be expedited on more 600ha of land on the Cambodia-Vietnam border that was earmarked for distribution to veterans and their families, as well as the impoverished. ...

Over the past 22 years, the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction has distributed 1,356,396.16ha of land to 487,157 households, including members of the armed forces, border police officers and poor people. ...

Twenty-one families involved in a years-long land dispute in Kratie province’s Chhlong district, say they are struggling to make ends meet after losing their farmland and have received no compensation from the government. The families from Proma village, Kampong Damrei commune, had their land seized in ...

The government has provided 104ha of a social land concession (SLC) in Dounba commune’s Kouk Roka village of Battambang province’s Kors Kralor district for housing and farming to 104 veterans. ...

About 628 houses and plots of land are being given to as many families of war veterans living in Phnom Kravanh district in Pursat province. ...

The Apsara National Authority (ANA), a state body tasked with managing the Angkor Archaeological Park, told local residents not to sell land in the park as doing so is illegal. ...

The Koh Kong Provincial Administration has decided to grant land for housing and farming as part of the government’s land allocation policy to 131 families who have been affected by a development project of Sinomex Sim, a private firm, in Botum Sakor district’s Andong Teuk ...

The Pursat Provincial Administration said 58 of 164 houses for Cambodian veterans have been built on social land concessions in Prangil commune’s Say village in Phnom Kravanh district. The homes are ready for veterans and their families to move in. ...

Kampong Thom provincial authorities will hand over around 2,000 hectares of social land concessions to 153 families of veterans in the province, according to the governor.​ ...

Pursat provincial authorities have allocated land to be provided to 628 veterans’ families as a social concession. ...

The owner of a provincial radio station, Sok Oudom, maintained he had not incited villagers in Kampong Chhnang province against the military during his incitement trial on Tuesday, with a verdict expected on November 17. ...

One hundred and eighty-one families affected by the Sihanoukville canal restoration project are set to receive social land concessions in Preah Sihanouk province, Sihanoukville governor Y Sok Leng said on Friday. The land allocation follows the demolition of structures illegally built on canals, which started ...

A group of 160 poor families from the Bunong indigenous community in Mondulkiri province’s Pech Chreada district have filed a complaint against their representative, accusing him of selling land earmarked for them as part of a social land concession. ...

The Preah Sihanouk provincial administration has recommended those whose houses were torn down for encroaching on canals to seek social land concessions from the authorities. Provincial deputy governor Cheav Vichheak told The Post on Tuesday that Sihanoukville has five main canals with a cumulative length ...

Kratie provincial authorities have resolved a land dispute between more than 1,800 families and the Memot Rubber Plantation Company in Snuol district’s Pi Thnou commune. Khan Chamnan, provincial deputy governor, yesterday said that each family will receive two hectares of Social Land Concessions.  ...

Preah Sihanouk provincial authorities provided plots of land to 45 families on Saturday after they agreed to move off a roadside in Sihanoukville’s Buon commune. Provincial Governor Kuoch Chamroeun said on Saturday during a land distribution ceremony that the 45 families squatted and lived on a ...

The government will spend some $4 million on the Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development Project Phase II (Lased II) to benefit almost 600 families in Prasat Balang district’s Doung commune in Kampong Thom province. The land allocation is aimed at alleviating poverty in ...

The government will grant social land concessions today to more than 200 poor families in Kratie province’s Chet Borei district. Provincial Governor Va Thorn yesterday said 223 poor families in Da commune, according to their size, would be given a total of 330 titles for between ...

Soldiers and police officials were granted 500 houses on Tuesday by the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction and Stung Treng authorities on land allocated for social land concessions. The houses on land in Stung Treng province’s Sre Sambor and Prek Meas communes ...

Representatives of residents involved in land disputes in Kratie province’s Snuol district yesterday expressed fear for their safety following warnings by authorities that legal action will be taken against those who lead protests in Phnom Penh. ...

Some 100 ethnic Banong villagers from Sre Hoy commune’s Chhul and Chhong Pang villages in Mondulkiri province’s Koh Nhek district protested on Tuesday after Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary officials allegedly uprooted wooden posts used to demarcate their ancestral burial sites. ...

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. ...