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Villagers petition Cambodian lawmakers for help with land dispute cases

About 200 villagers involved in land disputes in three provinces protested Monday outside Cambodia’s parliament building in Phnom Penh, demanding that lawmakers resolve their cases and threatening not to vote for those who turn down their requests. ...

Prach Chev
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/villagers-petition-cambodian-lawmakers-for-help-with-land-dispute-cases-07202015160050.html

Families split on offer from Vietnamese firm

Seventy families in Ratanakkiri province have agreed to accept a 100-hectare plot of land, bringing an end to their four-year dispute with a Vietnamese rubber company, but 156 other families refused to settle, officials said Thursday. ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/families-split-on-offer-from-vietnamese-firm-88709/

In the rush to open more rubber plantations, nobody wins

Land conversions for rubber plantations in continental South-East Asia have expanded to areas where rubber is not historically grown, posing risks to both farmers’ livelihoods and environment conservation. The study defines continental South-East Asia as comprising Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.​ ...

SciDevNet News Staff
http://www.scidev.net/asia-pacific/environment/news/in-the-rush-to-open-more-rubber-plantations-nobody-wins.html

Families file petition over land dispute with dry port company

Representatives for 77 families involved in a land dispute with a company that plans to build a dry port and industrial area in Kratie province petitioned the Interior Ministry and the National Assembly in Phnom Penh on Monday against a court order for them to ...

Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/families-file-petition-over-land-dispute-with-dry-port-company-88166/

ELC plantation land: use it – or lose it

One decade ago, villagers celebrated when a 10,000 hectare Economic Land Concession here was awarded to a prominent Phnom Penh tycoon. ...

Ven Rathavong and Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13247/elc-plantation-land--use-it-----or-lose-it/

Tycoon compensates 135 families at SEZ

A long-running land dispute between more than 130 families and the company managing the Koh Kong Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is nearing its end, with only seven families left to sign the compensation agreement, officials confirmed yesterday. ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tycoon-compensates-135-families-sez-0

SEZs investment potential relies in infrastructure

In 2005, after special economic zones (SEZs) were formally introduced in Cambodia through a sub-decree, Svay Reing’s Manhattan SEZ became the first to began construction the same year. The Sihanoukville SEZ remains Cambodia’s largest with over 1,000 hectares in the area. The $320 million development is ...

James Whitehead
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/sezs-investment-potential-relies-infrastructure

New SEZ aims for logistics hub

A new special economic zone aiming to make Cambodia into a regional logistics hub held an official groundbreaking ceremony yesterday, at its future home on the muddy outskirts of Phnom Penh in Kandal’s Takhmao district. The $100 million Kerry Worldbridge SEZ project is a partnership between ...

Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-sez-aims-logistics-hub

Cambodia villager held in attack on Chinese worker over land dispute

Police in Cambodia’s Tbong Khmum province on Friday arrested a villager accused of injuring a Chinese worker and his translator in a long running land dispute. ...

Saut Sok Pratna
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/cambodia-villager-06262015153727.html

Cambodian villagers block Chinese developer from clearing grazing land

Around 150 villagers in northwestern Cambodia’s Preah Vihear province have blocked a Chinese concession holder from clearing land they say was reserved for grazing their cattle, an official from a nongovernmental organization and a local commune chief said Wednesday. ...

RFA Khmer News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/developer-06242015162632.html

Farm produce sales discourage potential investors

The agriculture industry has lost its luster among industrial manufacturers and service providers. Tycoons are quietly withdrawing money from agriculture projects, just several years after pouring big money into the sector. Just a few years ago, Do Van Minh, Gemadept’s CEO, said that growing rubber ...

Vietnamnet News Staff
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/business/133619/farm-produce-sales-discourage-potential-investors.html

ELC land should go to villagers: governor

The governor of Kratie province this week sent a letter to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries requesting the reallocation of more than 3,000 hectares of economic land concession (ELC) property to villagers. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/elc-land-should-go-villagers-governor

Mitr Phol families petition for land

Villagers who have lost their land first to a Thai sugar company supplying Coca-Cola and then to a military unit in Oddar Meanchey province’s Samroang district yesterday petitioned the Agriculture Ministry to ask for it back. ...

May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mitr-phol-families-petition-land

Evictees ask gov’t for return of abandoned Thai plantations

A half-dozen villagers from Oddar Meanchey province traveled to Phnom Penh on Wednesday to ask the highest levels of government to return the farmland that thousands of families say they had stolen from them by a trio of Thai-owned sugarcane plantations. ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/evictees-ask-govt-for-return-of-abandoned-thai-plantations-85783/

PPSEZ shores up land deal prior to CSX listing

Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone, the Kingdom’s most-developed SEZ, says the land deal for its planned SEZ in Poipet will be concluded before PPSEZ lists on Cambodia’s stock exchange. Hiroshi Uematsu, CEO of PPSEZ, said that 53 hectares of land near the Thai border had already ...

Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ppsez-shores-land-deal-prior-csx-listing

Over 100 protest in support of families cut out of rail deal

More than 100 people protested Thursday outside Poipet City Hall in support of 50 families in Phsar Kandal commune who were passed over when the government offered compensation to residents who ceded land for a railway project that displaced some 4,000 families across the country. ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/over-100-protest-in-support-of-families-cut-out-of-rail-deal-85462/

18 families ordered to leave land, as Chinese development moves in

Eighteen families in a remote region of Koh Kong province have been ordered to move, in order to make way for the development of a Chinese-funded luxury tourist outpost. The families received notice on June 5, ordering them to leave their homes within one month. ...

Hul Reaksmey
http://bit.ly/1L4nJbk

CNRP lawmaker accuses police of stopping border post trip

CNRP lawmaker Mao Monyvann on Wednesday said his delegation of opposition lawmakers and party supporters was once again thwarted in their efforts to visit a disputed border post along Cambodia’s contentious frontier with Vietnam, this time by Cambodian police. ...

Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-lawmaker-accuses-police-of-stopping-border-post-trip-85360/

NGO gives Hun Sen’s land titling project mixed marks

In perhaps the most comprehensive review to date of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s 2012 land titling project, the NGO Forum on Tuesday said the campaign has yielded major benefits, but not without some serious costs—particularly for the country’s beleaguered indigenous communities. ...

Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngo-gives-hun-sens-land-titling-project-mixed-marks-85297/

Boeung Trabek residents resist offers

Residents of Phnom Penh’s Boeung Trabek area yesterday balked at the options to either pay the government for land certificates or sell their land to the municipality during a forum attended by local authorities, area inhabitants and housing rights officials. City officials earlier this year said ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/boeung-trabek-residents-resist-offers

Sen Sok land dispute families butt heads in Municipal court

A representative of 163 families who were awarded a hectare of land four years ago after a lengthy legal battle accused one of the awardees in the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday of inventing a different group of 163 families with claims to the ...

Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sen-sok-land-dispute-families-butt-heads-in-municipal-court-84875/

Communities unite against companies, court

More than 1,500 villagers on Tuesday marched from seven districts in Preah Vihear province to the provincial capital to call for action against companies involved in various land disputes, but a clampdown by police meant that only about 120 made it to the protest site, ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/communities-unite-against-companies-court-84891/

Kampot police may arrest protest leader

Military police in Kampot province on Monday said they would arrest a vocal member of a Chhuk district community locked in a land dispute with the provincial government if he failed to produce land titles for the hundreds of families claiming part of the contested ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kampot-police-may-arrest-protest-leader-84800/

Woman jailed in land dispute wins release

After five months in jail, a woman whose family is embroiled in a bitter land dispute with tycoon Khun Sear was released on bail from Prey Sar prison on Friday, though the fight between the two parties remains unresolved. ...

Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/woman-jailed-in-land-dispute-wins-release-82655/

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