Land

Cambodia and Vietnam have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to exchange parcels of land in provinces along the border in both countries after Joint Border Committee meetings in Ho Chi Minh City in July and last Thursday. The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry released information on its ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday pushed officials, relevant ministries and institutions to pay attention and expedite solutions for people in land disputes. ...

Kampong Speu province will soon be home to a Chinese-funded agricultural special economic zone (SEZ) with facilities to research plant diseases, after the Ministry of Agriculture and Tian Rui (Cambodia) Agricultural Cooperation SEZ Co., signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) yesterday. ...

Thailand’s Amata Corporation Plc., which is the country’s largest listed conglomerate in the industrial estate sector, is keen to set up a special economic zone (SEZ) in Cambodia due to the Kingdom’s strategic geographical location in the Greater Mekong Sub-region. The plan was announced on Sunday ...

Seemingly backing away from previous criticism, Heng Ratana, director-general of the Cambodia Mine Action Centre (CMAC), expressed gratitude to the US on Friday for pledging another $1.9 million to the organisation, while still implying that Cambodia is not treated as well as its neighbouring countries. ...

Japan has pledged to help fund three projects in Cambodia with a grant totalling about $31.9 million. Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary of State Long Visalo met with Japanese Ambassador to Cambodia Yuji Kumamaru yesterday for a signing ceremony to officially award the funding. One of ...

About 50 protesting villagers in Sihanoukville’s Mouy commune blocked National Road 4 yesterday for about one hour in an effort to stop authorities from demolishing their houses illegally built in the Kbal Chhay protected forest. Heng Sokhom, a representative of the group, acknowledged that their houses ...

Twenty Cham villagers from Kratie province’s Snuol district yesterday visited the Ministry of Land Management and Urban Planning to demand authorities resolve their community’s seven-year-old land dispute with two rubber companies. ...

The Japanese government agreed yesterday to provide more than $830,000 to the Japan Mine Action Service (JMAS) to assist the Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) with demining operations in the northwestern part of Battambang province. The deal was signed by Japan’s Ambassador to Cambodia Yuji Kumamaru ...

City Hall said villagers affected by the development project of the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar district would have two months to claim the certificate of land policy before it would stop assuming responsibility for losses, according to a statement ...

China has pledged to increase its investment in Cambodia in return for the Kingdom’s commitment to its regional policies and economic initiatives in Southeast Asia. Wang Lei, secretary-general of the Chinese-ASEAN Expo (CAEXPO) Secretariat, said on Wednesday that Cambodia had thrown its full support behind China’s ...

Sixty-five people representing 71 families in Chrey Lors and Chhveang communes in Kandal province’s Ponhea Leu district protested at the Ministry of Land Management yesterday and requested the ministry’s intervention and resolution of a nearly 10-year-old land dispute with the SKD company. One of the representatives, ...

Civil society organizations yesterday repeated calls for land disputes to be resolved quickly, peacefully and without authorities using police and the courts to put pressure on communities. Speaking at an event celebrating poor urban communities at the American Intercon School yesterday, more than 200 people, including ...

Villages in Siem Reap yesterday welcomed a provincial court ruling that ordered the return of 300 hectares of land that local authorities had seized in 2011 “For more than five years we did not have land for rice farming,” said Mean Cheng, a representative for the ...

About 200 people representing 540 families from the Prek Takong 1 and Kva communities in the capital’s Meanchey and Dangkao districts gathered in front of the Land Management Ministry for the fourth time yesterday, asking to receive titles from land cut from the ING City ...

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 ...

About 20 representatives of more than 160 Sen Sok district families delivered a petition to the Land Management Ministry yesterday claiming a former community representative poached land from them that they had spent seven years reclaiming through the courts. ...

A land dispute working group in Preah Sihanouk province yesterday started measuring land for three communities in Smach Daeng village in Prey Nob district’s Ream commune, who had a long-running land dispute with the Yi Yea Group Company who had received an economic land concession ...

Nearly 100 people in land disputes with powerful officials and investment companies in Tbong Khmum and Kratie provinces gathered at the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction yesterday afternoon to urge the ministry to expedite a land dispute resolution for them. Chan Yong, a ...

Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ) ‒ a listed company on the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) ‒ reveled on Friday that by 2020, 50 percent of the company’s revenue would be generated by sales of services. This new target was made after PPSEZ informed the ...

The Ministry of Environment said yesterday that a recently constructed water-treatment facility at the Manhattan Special Economic Zone in Svay Rieng is unable to deal with most of the polluted water generated by factories at the site, and that 70 per cent was being dumped ...

The Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) has restarted a long-dormant dog breeding program it hopes will replenish its stock of explosive-sniffing canines as well as its dwindling coffers by selling them to others, including riot police. The first litter of six Malinois, a type of Belgian ...

Land prices in the capital’s Sen Sok and Tuol Kork districts saw a slight decrease in the second quarter relative to the year’s first quarter, which was blamed on a stagnant property market from earlier this year. ...

While meeting locals and officials in Preah Vihear province yesterday, Prime Minister Hun Sen decided to allocate more than 80 hectares of airport land in Preah Vihear town’s Palhal commune to 127 families. In a meeting with officials and armed forces that was announced on Mr. Hun Sen’s official ...