Land
Land tenure and land titling
Forest officials involved in logging, villagers say
- 5 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber / National parks and wildlife sanctuaries / Protected areas / Protected forest / Public land lease
- Binh Phuoc Kratie Rubber 1 / Binh Phuoc Kratie Rubber 1 Company / Binh Phuoc Kratie Rubber 2 / Binh Phuoc Kratie Rubber 2 Company / Cambodian Center for Human Rights / CCHR / conservation area / deforestation / Disputed Land / Eastern Rubber (Cambodia) / Eastern Rubber (Cambodia) company / ELC moratorium / ELCs / FA / forest patrols / forest protection / forest protection laws / Forestry Administration / Forests / Hun Sen / illegal logging / kratie / Kratie Province / logging / Ministry of Environment / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Protected areas / protected forest / rubber / rubber plantations / Seima Protection Forest / Snuol district / Snuol Wildlife Sanctuary / timber / Vietnamese companies / wildlife sanctuaries
Communities living in the protected Snuol wildlife sanctuary in Kratie province said yesterday that the sanctuary was being destroyed by private companies acting in collusion with local wildlife officers. Snuol forest community representative Mom Sakim said private interests were claiming large areas of the sanctuary without ...
Authorities Deny Abuses at Thai Plantation Tied To CPP Senator
- 4 June 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Human rights / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development / Sugar
- CPP / CPP Senator / crops / deputy governor Lon An / Disputed Land / EC / economic land concession / ELC / ELCs / Equitable Cambodia / eviction / forced eviction / illegal eviction / Khon Kaen Sugar / Koh Kong / Land dispute / land eviction / LICHADO / Lon An / Ly Yong Phat / Mitr Phol / National Human Rights Commission of Thailand / Oddar Meanchey / right abuse / rights groups / Senate / sugar / sugar cane / sugar cane plantations / Thai Plantation / Thailand
Oddar Meanchey province deputy governor Lon An yesterday confirmed CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat’s involvement in a trio of sugar cane plantations that rights groups took to the National Human rights Commission of Thailand last week, but denied their allegations of rights abuses. The deputy ...
Sugar firm under fire
- 3 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Biofuel crops / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Exports / Human rights / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development / Sugar / The poor / Trade
- Angkor Sugar / Asia / blood sugar / child labour / Chongkal district / duty-free trade preferences / Eang Vuthy / ELC / Equitable Cambodia / EU / European Parliament / European Union aid / Everything But Arms / Food insecurity / force eviction / Human Rights / human rights abuses / Kampong Speu Province / Koh Kong / Koh Kong Province / KSL / Land concession / land conflict / Land dispute / land eviction / Land Law / LICADHO / Ly Yong Phat / Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation / O’Bat Moun / Oddar Meanchey Province / Phnom Penh Sugar Company / Senator Ly Yong Phat / social impact assessments / Somrang district / sugar / sugar cane-planting concessionaires / Sugar company / sugar concession / sugar plantations / Tate and Lyle / Thai conglomerate / Thai human rights body / Thai national human rights commission / Thai sugar manufacturer KSL / Thailand / Tonle Sugar Cane / trade preferences
Asia’s largest sugar company has been accused of torching hundreds of homes, orchestrating the imprisonment of a pregnant activist and using security forces to beat villagers – among a raft of other grave human rights abuses – by communities in Oddar Meanchey province. The allegations levelled ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060366024/National/sugar-firm-under-fire.html
Homes, Trees Destroyed, Villagers Say
- 31 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
- Adhoc / Adhoc provincial coordinator / Che Chei / Corruption / destruction / Disputed Land / ELCs / evictions / Farm Land / forced evictions / human rights violations / illegal logging / land conflict / Land dispute / MDS Import Export Co Ltd / Oknha Try Pheap / Phoung Sothear / Prom Ngorn / Pursat / Pursat Province / rubber / rubber trees / social land concessions / Thai Border / Thailand / Thma Da Commune Chief / Veal Veng district / Veal Veng District Governor / villagers
About 50 police, soldiers and environmental officials yesterday demolished two houses and cut down thousands of trees belonging to families who are locked in a land dispute with MDS Import Export Co, owned by tycoon Try Pheap, villagers in Pursat province claimed. Fellow villager Khouch ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013053165987/National/homes-trees-destroyed-villagers-say.html
Jarai Villagers Ask UN for Help in Land Fight
- 31 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forests and forestry / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
- community forest / community land / Company 72 / Day Dong Yoeung Company / Disputed Land / ELCs / ethnic Jarai / ethnic Jarai minority / ethnic Jarai villagers / Forest / land conflicts / land disputes / land protests / Lom village / Lom Village Chief / Lom Villagers / NGO-led Workshop / O’Yadav district / Paknhai commune / Phnom Penh / protests / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Romas Chvat / Sev Hlin / student volunteer program / Stung Treng / Stung Treng Province / UN / United Nations / Vietnamese company / villagers
More than 300 ethnic Jarai families from Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district in longstanding land disputes with two Vietnamese land concessionaires submitted a petition to UN human rights officers yesterday asking for help. Village representative Romas Chvat said locals were participating in an NGO-led workshop on protest ...
Villagers Say Company Deceived Them in Deal
Five Koh Kong families embroiled in an ongoing land dispute with Heng Huy Agriculture Company were accompanied by more than 50 villagers yesterday as they went to court to clarify why they are asking for contracts signed with the company to be annulled. Pok Yon, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013053065936/National/villagers-say-company-deceived-them-in-deal.html
Families seek to Farm Land Claimed by RCAF
- 30 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Rice
- Adhoc / Agriculture & Agri-business / Bantey Meanchey / Bantey Meanchey Province / border issues / border protection / borders / Brigadier General Lanh Kao / Cassava / Chop Vary Commune / crops / Disputed Land / farming / Farmland / General Lanh Kao / harvesting / illegal border crossing / illegal migrant workers / land ownership / Lanh Kao / migrants / migration / Military soldiers / Preah Net Preah / Preah Netr Preah commune / Preah Netr Preah district / RCAF / RCAF artillery unit / RCAF Brigadier General Lanh Kao / RCAF headquarters / RCAF tank unit / rice / Rice Farming / rice paddy / Royal Cambodian Armed Forces / soldiers / Thai Border / Thailand
Some 300 families from Bantey Meanchey province’s Preah Netr Preah district-embroiled in two separate long-running disputes with Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF)-yesterday submitted complaints to the provincial governor asking for permission to temporarily farm on the land until the ownership dispute is resolved, villagers and ...
Water Cannon Crackdown on Cambodian Land Activists
- 29 May 2013
- Radio Free Asia
- Economy and commerce / Gender / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Women in development
- Adhoc / Boeng Kak / Boeung Kak / Borei Keila / City Hall spokesman Long Dyman / development projects / Factories / forced evictions / Garment factories / Human Rights / land activist Yorm Bopha / land and housing rights / land disputes / Land Rights Activist Tep Vanny / LICADHO / Long Dyman / minimum wages / Pa Socheatvong / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh City Hall / Phnom Penh Municipal Court / Phnom Penh municipal governor Pa Socheatvong / Police / protests / Resettlement / stun batons / Supreme Court / Supreme Court of Cambodia / Tep Vanny / Thmar Koul / wages / water cannons / Yorm Bopha
Cambodian police used water cannons Wednesday to disperse around 200 women demanding a quick resolution to long-running land disputes, knocking at least three of the protesters, including a 72-year-old, unconscious. The move came two days after authorities used stun batons to disperse a protest over wages ...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/land-05292013164116.html
Villagers Petition Against Crematorium’s Removal
- 29 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Pollution and waste
- Bak Kheng pagoda / commercial development / Council of Ministers / Council of Ministers Secretary of State Prak Sokhon / crematoriums / development projects / Eng Kaing Development Company / Khtor Pagoda / Ministry of Cults and Religion / Ministry of Cults and Religions department of complaints and dissolution / National Road 6A / Net Chambo / pagodas / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh City Hall / pollution / Prak Sokhon / Prek Liep Commune / protests / Russei Keo district / schools / Secretary of State Prak Sokhon / smoke pollution
More than 1,000 villagers in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district have signed a petition protesting the removal of a crematorium that is currently on land slated for a large development project. According to a letter from the Council of Ministers addressed to the Ministry of Cults ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-petition-against-crematoriums-removal-27487/
Villagers Seize Trucks in Protest
- 28 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Social development
- agro-industry / Boeung Char commune / Community Representative / deforestation / Disputed Land / ELCs / eviction / Farm Land / Forest / Illegal poaching / Kompong Cham / Kompong Cham Province / Korea / Korean company / kratie / Kratie Province / land conflict / Land dispute / Land protest / Land-grabbing / protests / Sam No / Sambor district / Sambor District Governor / Seng Sotha / Stung Treng / Stung Treng Province / Think Biotech / Think Biotech Timber Company / timber / villagers
More than 300 protesters seized two company trucks outside the Kratie office of Korean-owned timber company Think Biotech Co yesterday as protests by villagers who allege land-grabbing continued for a second day. “We have seized the company’s two trucks to ask the company to come ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052865873/National/villagers-seize-trucks-in-protest.html
Tampuon File Complaint Over Forest Clearing
- 28 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber / Social development
- Adhoc / Bakeo district / community forest / deforestation / Forest / forest clearing / illegal logging / indigenous people / indigenous peoples land / land acquisition / land clearing / Pao Ham Phan / Provincial Deputy Prosecutor Ros Samram / Provincial Governor Pao Ham Phan / Ratanakirri Provincial Deputy Prosecutor Ros Samram / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Ratanakkiri provincial governor Pao Ham Phan / Ros Samram / rubber / rubber investor / rubber trees / Soeung commune / Sou village / Tampuon / Tampuon ethic minority / Tampuon villagers
A community of ethnic minority Tampuon people in Ratanakkiri province yesterday filed a complaint with the provincial court against six people they believe illegally cleared 80 hectares of community forest land and sold it to a rubber investor, villagers and court officials said. The land in ...
Land Battle Headed to Court
- 27 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Civil society / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Human rights / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Protected forest / Social development
- Adhoc / Adhoc Investigator / Bakeo district / Bakeo District Governor / compensation / deforestation / Disputed Land / ethnic minority / ethnic Tampuon / Forest / forest clearance / forest clearing / Heng Bunthan / illegal logging / indegenous group / Laminh commune / Laminh Commune Chief / land conflict / Land dispute / Land rights / logging / Mean Promony / Pen Sophon / protected forest / Rattanakiri / Rattanakiri province / Rattanakiri Provincial Court / Suo Village / Tampuon / villagers
Eight ethnic Tampuon villagers from Ratanakkiri’s Bakeo district will file a lawsuit at provincial court today alleging that more than 70 hectares of protected forest have been illegally cleared by a police official and six villagers from a neighbouring commune. Ting Kham Se, 52, of Laminh ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052765851/National/land-battle-headed-to-court.html
Call for Arsenal to Drop Links With Rubber Firm
- 27 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Rubber
- Arsenal / Arsenal Football Club / deforestation / ELCs / football / Global Witness / global witness report / HAGAL chairman Doan Nguyen Duc / HAGL / Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange / Hoang Anh Gia Lai / Ivan Gazidis / job creation / land disputes / Land-grabbing / online petition / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / rubber / Rubber Barons / Rubber Barons report / Rubber Companies / Taxes / Vietnamese rubber company
An online petition has been launched calling on English Premier League football club Arsenal to break its ties with a Vietnamese rubber company accused of land grabbing and deforestation in Cambodia. A report by London-based Global Witness this month named Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) as ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/call-for-arsenal-to-drop-links-with-rubber-firm-26801/
Villagers Camp Out to Protest ‘Land Grab’
- 27 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Land / Land tenure and land titling
- Boeung Char commune / CPP / deforestation / Disputed Land / ELCs / evictions / Farmland / Forest / forest land / Illegal poaching / Kampong Cham / Kang Meng / Kim Lour / Kompong Cham Province / Korea / Korean company / kratie / Kratie Province / land conflict / Land dispute / Land protest / Land titles / Land-grabbing / protests / Sambor district / Sok Chenda / student volunteer program / Think Biotech / Think Biotech Timber Company / timber / villagers
More than 100 people from two communes in Kratie province’s Sambor district gathered yesterday for a three-day protest in front of the provincial office of Think Biotech, a Korean-owned timber company villagers say is encroaching on their land. As of yesterday evening, 10 armed policemen ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052765854/National/villagers-camp-out-to-protest-land-grab.html
Rice Boss in Pre-trial Detention ‘13 Months’
- 24 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Land / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Siem Reap
- Ang Vong Vattana / Cambodia’s judiciary / Cambodian Human Rights Committee President / Chhim Narith / Chiv Keng / Civil Law / criminal offense / Defence Lawyer He Chiv Eng / Disputed Land / Fraud / He Chiv Eng / illegal detention / imprisonment / judicial system / judiciary / Keo Remy / King Norodom Sihamoni / Leang Sam Nath / Ministry of Justice / Ministry of Justice Minister / Om Yentieng / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh Municipal Court / pre-trial detention / President of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court / Press and Quick Reaction Unit / Rice Natural International Group / Rice Natural International Group General Director / Ros Sovann Veasna / Siem Reap / Siem Reap Province / Supreme Council of Magistracy President / Un Somalea
The general director of a local rice wholesaler accused of defrauding business associates in a deal has lashed out at the judiciary – claiming delays in legal processing have left him imprisoned for 13 months without trial. Sovann Veasna is accused of cheating three businessmen ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052465829/National/rice-boss-in-pre-trial-detention-13-months.html
Families Say Land Was Taken
- 24 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Land / Land tenure and land titling
- Battambang / Battambang Province / Bavel district / Bavel District Commune Chief / Boeng Bram / Butom Vatey Pagoda / Disputed Land / evicted families / eviction / eviction protest / Former Khmer Rouge Cadres / Hun Sen / Hun Sen Volunteer Youths / Land dispute / Land grabs / Land-grabbing / Phnom Penh / Phnom Proek district / Prime Minister Hun Sen / social land concessions
Nearly 90 representatives of 137 families in Battambang province, some of whom include former Khmer Rouge cadres, protested for a second day in Phnom Penh yesterday, claiming authorities had seized land they had held since the late 1990s. Ul Yan who was among protesters at Butom ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052465825/National/families-say-land-was-taken.html
Judge Denies Coercion Claim in Land Dispute Assault Case
- 24 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Social development
- Adhoc / assault / Cambodian Defenders Project / Coercion / compensation / Corruption / crime / Disputed Land / DM Group / Ethnic Minority Tampoun community in LumPhat District / Human Rights / human rights violations / Judge Champnap / Judge Eng Champnap / judiciary / Lieutenant Sin Vanny / Lumphat district / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Ratanakkiri Provincial Judge Champnap / Ratanakkiri Provincial Judge Eng Champnap / RCAF / RCAF Second Lieutenant Sin Vanny / Royal Cambodian Armed Forces / Royal Cambodian Armed Forces Second Lieutenant Sin Vanny / rubber / rubber company / Rubber plantation / Second Lieutenant Sin Vanny / Sin Vanny / Sok Sam Oeun / Sok Sam Oeun executive director of Cambodia Defenders Project / soldiers / Supreme Council of Magistracy
A father whose three children were badly beaten by employees of a rubber plantation has accused a Ratanakkiri Provincial Court judge of threatening to send two sons, aged 14 and 21, to jail unless they accept $1,000 in compensation and drop the assault complaint. Ry Saron ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/judge-denies-coercion-claim-in-assault-case-26546/
Eviction Protestors Block Phnom Penh International Airport
- 23 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Economy and commerce / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Phnom Penh
- Airports / aviation / Barack Obama / Boeng Kak / Boeung Kak / Borei Keila / Choam Cho commune / Civil Aviation State Secretariat Say Sokhan / compensation / construction / Eviction Protestors / evictions / forced evictions / house constructions / International Civil Aviation Organisation / land disputes / Land rights / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh International Airport / Police / property transactions / protests / Say Sokhan / Tmar Kaul village / Tourism / transport / US President Barack Obama
About 20 people protesting their pending eviction from their homes near Phnom Penh International Airport blocked people from leaving or entering the airport for about half an hour yesterday, before a large force of police broke up their protest. In July, authorities told 182 families ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eviction-protesters-block-phnom-penh-international-airport-26147/
CNRP Lawmaker Visits Controversial Plantation
- 22 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Community forest / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forest classifications / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber / National parks and wildlife sanctuaries / Public land lease / Rubber / Social development
- Adhoc / Cambodia National Rescue Party / CNRP / CNRP law maker Son Chhay / Company 72 / degraded forests / Disputed Land / ELCs / ethic Jarai minority / ethnic Jarai minorities / ethnic minority land / Forests / Human Rights / illegal logging / illegal logging trade / indigenous people / indigenous peoples land / indigenous peoples rights / Jarai / Jarai community / Land concessions / logging / National Assembly / O’Yadaw district / opposition law maker Son Chhay / Plantations / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / rubber / rubber firms / Rubber plantation / Son Chhay / Vietnamese rubber firm
Opposition lawmaker Son Chhay said yesterday that he would ask the government to cancel the land concession of a Vietnamese rubber firm in Ratanakkiri province he accused of logging and exporting wood illegally. Mr. Chay, a candidate in July’s national election for the Cambodia National Rescue ...
Students Protest At UN Envoy’s University Lecture
- 22 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Education and training / Higher education / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
- Cambodian Mekong University / CMU / CMU university students / Disputed Land / ELCs / foreign investment / Human Rights / human rights report / international investors / international law / Investment / Land rights / law of foreign investment / Phnom Penh / protests / Royal University of Law and Economics / Special Rapporteur Surya Subedi / students / Surya Subedi / U.N. / UN / UN Envoy to Cambodia / UN Envoy to Cambodia Suyrya Subedi / UN Special Rapporteur / UN special rapporteur on human rights / UN Special Rapporteur Surya Subedi / UN Special Rapporteur to Cambodia / United Nations / University of Leeds
U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi on Tuesday received a thorny reception from hundreds of students at a Phnom Penh university, who angrily questioned his impartiality and unfurled banners calling for him to end his work in Cambodia. Special rapporteur Subedi delivered a lecture to about ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/students-protest-at-un-envoys-university-lecture-25855/
Dad ‘Threatened’ by Court
- 22 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease
- Adhoc / Adhoc Provincial Coordinator Chhay Thy / Chhay Thy / Disputed Land / DM Group / DM Group Company / economic land concession / ELCs / Eng Chamnag / Farmland / land clearing / Land rights / Ratanakkiri provincial court / Ratanakkiri Provincial Court Judge / Rattanakiri / Rattanakiri province / rubber / Rubber DM Group Company / Rubber plantation / Ry Sarun
The father of three youths allegedly beaten by DM Group workers earlier this month said court officers yesterday threatened to imprison him if he did not agree to compromise with the company and drop the case. Ry Sarun appeared at Ratanakkiri Provincial Court yesterday to answer ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052265776/National/dad-threatened-by-court.html
Homeowners petition ADB
- 21 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Infrastructure / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Rail / Transport infrastructure and facilities
- ADB / ADB Country Director Eric Sidgwick / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / compensation / complaint / Compliance Review Panel / Debt / Inter-Ministerial Resettlement Committee / IRC / Luy Im / Ministry of Economy and Finance / National Assembly / NGO Sahmakum Teang Tnaut / Nora Lindstrom / OSPF / Phnom Penh / Phum III. Phum / Project’s Grievance Redress Mechanism / railway / railway development / railway rehabilitation project / relocated families / Relocation / resettlement issues / Resettlement problem / Tapeang Anhchanh / Toul Sangke A
The occupants of 90 Phnom Penh households whose homes were partially or completely dismantled to make way for the Railway Rehabilitation Project partly funded by the ADB have demanded the bank offer them fair compensation. In a letter submitted to the Inter-Ministerial Resettlement Committee, the ADB, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052165738/National/homeowners-petition-adb.html
Troubled Village Embroiled In New Land Disputes
- 20 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Rubber / Social development / Social land concessions
- agro-industry companies / Appeal Court / Beehive Radio / Beehive radio owner Mam Sonando / broma / Broma village / Casotim / Cham / Chan Kong / community forest / Court of Appeal / Disputed Land / ELCs / ethnic Cham minorities / Farmland / forced evictions / forest clearing / Heng Chantha / kratie / Kratie district governor / Kratie district governor Sam Sarith / Kratie Province / Kratie provincial government department of land management / Mam Sonando / Phnom Penh Municipal Court / Pro Ma / Pro Mar / rubber / Rubber plantation / Sam Sarith / social land concessions
A year after a massive military raid here that left a 14-year old girl dead and hundreds of families evicted, there remains little sign of the original land dispute that turned this rural village into a hotbed of agitation. But a new firm and a government-issued ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/troubled-village-embroiled-in-new-land-disputes-25184/
Trade Deal Threat Still On Table
- 20 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Crop products and commodities / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / European Union aid / Exports / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Sugar / Trade
- Cambodian Trade Minister Cham Prasidh / Cham Prasidh / Convention Concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment / Disputed Land / Eang Vuthy / EBA / economic land concession / Economic Land Concessions (ELCs) / ELC / ELCs / Equitable Cambodia / European Commission / European Commission Member / European Commission Vice President / European Parliament / European Union aid / Everything But Arms / International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights / Jean-Francois Cautain / Kampong Speu / Karel De Gucht / Katherine Ashton / Land rights / Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh / NGOs / no-tariff agreement / sugar / sugar industry / Trade / trade deals
The European union’s executive arm has responded to its parliamentarians’ concerns over rights abuses stemming from Cambodia’s economic land concessions, maintaining that, should the need arise, it “will be ready” to withdraw from its preferential trade agreements with the Kingdom. In a joint letter to concerned ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052065716/National/trade-deal-threat-still-on-table.html