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Social land concessions

In ‘historic lawsuit’, Oddar Meanchey villagers take sugar giant Mitr Phol to court in Thailand

Cambodian villagers have filed a class action suit in Bangkok against Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation for human rights violations after the eviction of hundreds of villagers in Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey province, with a US rights group calling the case a “historic lawsuit”. ...

Ananth Baliga and Phak Seangly
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/historic-lawsuit-oddar-meanchey-villagers-take-sugar-giant-mitr-phol-court-thailand

Land titles granted to nearly 800 families

The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction yesterday issued land titles to nearly 800 families living on social land concessions in Kampong Thom province’s Santuk district. The ministry said the land concessions and following land titles have contributed to a reduction in poverty and ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50269438/land-titles-granted-to-nearly-800-families/

Villagers’ illegal homes removed by authorities

Authorities and soldiers on Friday removed more than 80 houses and farm huts belonging to people that were living illegally on social land concessions of more than 2,000 hectares in Banteay Meanchey province’s Thma Puok, Svay Chek and Phnom Srok districts. However, some residents claimed that ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50116035/villagers-illegal-homes-removed-by-authorities/

Duong Sruoch Group denies clearing in wildlife sanctuary

A representative with Duong Sruoch Group in Preah Vihear yesterday denied allegations that that the company had been illegally clearing forest outside the boundaries of social land concessions it had been licensed to log. Duong Sruoch Group was specifically named in a directive issued Monday by ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/duong-sruoch-group-denies-clearing-wildlife-sanctuary

Licences to log SLCs are ordered revoked

The Council of Ministers has ordered licences granted to private companies to log and collect timber from social land concessions (SLC) and state-owned land revoked, following years of allegations that some companies were exploiting the permits to carry out illegal logging. The council on Monday released ...

Phak Seangly and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/licences-log-slcs-are-ordered-revoked

Land dispute rep to appear before court

A representative of more than 100 families involved in a land dispute with a rubber company is seeking the help of a local rights group after being ordered to appear before the Oddar Meanchey Provincial Court on Friday. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-dispute-rep-appear-court

Three who sold land for veterans arrested

Authorities in Banteay Meanchey province on Sunday arrested three people accused of inciting villagers to occupy state land slated for use by retired armed forces members. ...

Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50109478/three-sold-land-veterans-arrested/

Plots given to some in land dispute with gold mining firm

Officials with the Preah Vihear Land Management Department last week measured plots of land for 16 of the 56 families who last month filed a petition seeking intervention in a land dispute with gold mining firm Delcom. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/plots-given-some-land-dispute-gold-mining-firm

Families dispute mine land in Preah Vihear

Officials from the Preah Vihear provincial Land Management Department and Rovieng district yesterday inspected a piece of land at the centre of a dispute between gold mining company Delcom and 56 families following a petition the families filed last month at the Ministry of Land ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-dispute-mine-land-preah-vihear

Villagers seek help in land dispute with mining firm

Seven villagers from Preah Vihear travelled to Phnom Penh to deliver a petition on Friday asking the government to intervene in a dispute involving gold mining company Delcom, with local authorities turning up to question the wife of one of those delivering the petition shortly ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-seek-help-land-dispute-mining-firm

Preah Vihear land dispute families block tractors

Representatives of 40 families locked in a decade-old land dispute with a Chinese sugar company in Preah Vihear province blocked tractors from clearing land that the villagers say belongs to them, while 50 families in a separate land dispute in Koh Kong took their complaints ...

Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-land-dispute-families-block-tractors

Ministry to investigate Prey Lang land grabs

The Prey Lang Community Network in Preah Vihear province has asked the government to investigate the building of homes in a protected area by a group of families claiming they were granted a social land concession.​ ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/91828/

Preah Sihanouk administration provides social land concessions to 176 families in Sangkat 1, Sihanoukville

On 28 July 2017, Preah Sihanouk administration, with participation from H.E. Yun Min, Preah Sihanouk Provincial Governor, has made social land concessions to 176 families in Kbal Chhay, which is located in Village 1, Sangkat 1, Sihanoukville. ...

Ngo Somony
http://www.akp.gov.kh/kh/?p=191730

PM says veterans will get their land

Prime Minister Hun Sen has asked Land Minister Chea Sophara and the Cambodia Veterans Association to make a success of the social land concession scheme for men and women who have served the nation. ...

Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38295/pm-says-veterans-will-get-their-land/

Soldiers escorting logs from sanctuary: locals

Communities in Preah Vihear’s Choam Ksan district have alleged that soldiers are involved in the transportation of illegal timber in the protected forests of Kulen Prum Tep Wildlife Sanctuary, an allegation denied yesterday by a local military official. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/soldiers-escorting-logs-sanctuary-locals

Vets living on SLC say site lacks clean water

About 30 veterans living in Aphivat Thmey village in Stung Treng’s Samaki commune – on land granted to them as a social land concession (SLC) last year – are pushing authorities to deliver a basic necessity the site lacks: clean water.​ ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vets-living-slc-say-site-lacks-clean-water

Company owners, employees arrested over huge timber raid

The owners of Hong Sopheap Development Company in Preah Vihear have been arrested days after military police carried out a massive raid on a 4,000 hectare social land concession (SLC) that the company holds a licence to log. ...

Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/company-owners-employees-arrested-over-huge-timber-raid

Veteran families push for land titles

Representatives of 120 families consisting of veterans and disabled soldiers living in Banteay Meanchey province’s Malai district asked the government and provincial authorities to expedite the delivery of land titles as they have been living on land the government gave them for three years without ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29436/veteran-families-push-for-land-titles/

Villagers, coffee firm battle over Mondulkiri land

Tensions flared yesterday between 20 Bunong ethnic minority villagers and a coffee company operating on an economic land concession in Mondulkiri’s Pech Chreada district, prompting local authorities to investigate.   ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-coffee-firm-battle-over-mondulkiri-land

Preah Vihear disputants allowed to keep land

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. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-disputants-allowed-keep-land

Kratie authorities tell families to get off land

Kratie’s provincial authorities on Friday gave an ultimatum to over 100 families living in Damrei Phong commune in Chhloung district, telling them to get off their land or face legal action.   ...

Kong Meta and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kratie-authorities-tell-families-get-land

World bank project in trouble before it starts

Between 2008 and 2015, the World Bank and German aid agency GIZ spent $13 million setting up eight social land concessions for thousands of the poorest Cambodians, doling out small farms they could use to pull themselves out of poverty and, after a few years, ...

Zsombor Peter and Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/world-bank-project-in-trouble-before-it-starts-108700/

Villagers say SLC broker cheated them

Some 1,500 hectares in social land concessions granted to families in Stung Treng province are being illegally cleared and sold by the community’s land broker, according to locals and rights group Adhoc. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-say-slc-broker-cheated-them

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