Land
Land policy and administration
Hun Sen gives hope to villagers in land fight
Last month, Prime Minister Hun Sen was mocked for claiming in a speech on August 18 that he was unaware of a land dispute in Kratie province’s Snuol district over which villagers had repeatedly petitioned his cabinet. But Mr. Hun Sen’s admission that he was unaware ...
Mech Dara and George Wright
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-gives-hope-to-villagers-in-land-fight-67416/
Villagers hand out leaflets in fight with sugar firm
About 100 villagers marched through Koh Kong province’s Sre Ambel district on Saturday, handing out leaflets in an effort to inform the public about their land dispute with Thailand’s Khon Kaen Sugar Industry Limited (KSL). ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-hand-out-leaflets-in-fight-with-sugar-firm-67359/
After prolonged protest, villagers win back land
Land Management Minister Im Chhun Lim intervened in a high-profile land dispute between villagers from Kratie province’s Snuol district and a South Korean agribusiness firm over the weekend, announcing Saturday that the contested 1,562-hectare tract would be taken back from the company and awarded to ...
Aun Pheap and George Wright
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-prolonged-protest-villagers-win-back-land-67344/
KDC protests to go on
One of five villagers arrested in a land dispute with politically connected company KDC International told the Post after their release on Friday that he would keep protesting “until our community obtains a resolution from the government”. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/kdc-protests-go
Koh Kong gov to bring petition to Say Sam Al
Koh Kong Governor Bun Leart has promised villagers evicted from their land by Chinese-owned Union Development Group that he will give their petition to Minister of Environment Say Sam Al today. ...
Sen David
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-kong-gov-bring-petition-say-sam-al
KDC workers petition against the release of five villagers
Workers at the center of a land dispute between villagers in Kompong Chhnang province and a company owned by the wife of the mines and energy minister on Thursday pressed forward with a campaign against the release of five villagers who were imprisoned over violence ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kdc-workers-petition-against-the-release-of-five-villagers-67270/
Guards move batons aside in rare show of benevolence
Over the past year, Phnom Penh officials have proven themselves to be an unyielding group in the face of dissent, and the helmeted, baton-wielding security guards who answer to them the scourge of protesters. On Wednesday, however, Daun Penh district officials took a softer approach when ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/guards-move-batons-aside-in-rare-show-of-benevolence-67226/
Kratie land dispute unsolved after latest talks
Representatives of villagers in Kratie province locked in a land dispute with an agribusiness firm said discussions with land management and provincial officials at the Snuol district hall ended Tuesday without a resolution. ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kratie-land-dispute-unsolved-after-latest-talks-67198/
Villagers questioned over dispute with senator
The Koh Kong Provincial Court questioned four villager representatives Tuesday over alleged violence and property damage in an ongoing land dispute with CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat’s Koh Kong Special Economic Zone company. ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-questioned-over-dispute-with-senator-67200/
Lor Peang villagers march to Justice Ministry, National Assembly
A group of Kompong Chhnang villagers in a fight for land with the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem delivered petitions to the Ministry of Justice and National Assembly on Monday, one of five communities from across the country that have recently traveled ...
Khuon Narim and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lor-peang-villagers-march-to-justice-ministry-national-assembly-67138/
Battambang families to petition Prime Minister
A group of families involved in a land dispute with a businessman in Battambang province will today submit petitions to the National Assembly and Prime Minister Hun Sen’s cabinet to plead for intervention. The more than 300 families, from Bavel district’s Boeng Bram commune, maintain that ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/battambang-families-to-petition-prime-minister-67156/
Villagers pushed back from Hun Sen’s house
About 70 residents from Kandal province’s Ponhea Leu district were blocked on Saturday from marching to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Phnom Penh villa, where they planned to appeal for support in a long-running land dispute. The residents were representing 134 families from four villages in Chhvang ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-pushed-back-from-hun-sens-house-67107/
Rubber giant to hear villagers’ complaints
More than 15 months after a Global Witness report revealed that Vietnam’s state-owned rubber giant had illegally cleared land and displaced communities in Cambodia, the company has announced that it will accept and respond to complaints from those whose lives it has damaged. Vietnam Rubber Group, ...
Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rubber-giant-to-hear-villagers-complaints-67074/
Timber dealer accuses firms of fraud, wants Hun Sen’s help
The director of a Vietnamese company hoping to buy timber off a pair of land concessions has accused three local businessmen of cheating her out of $200,000 and asked Prime Minister Hun Sen to investigate, according to a letter published by local media. ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/timber-dealer-accuses-firms-of-fraud-wants-hun-sens-help-67109/
Refugee house hunting
High-level bureaucrats from Australia have visited several sites in Cambodia over the past two months to view properties where refugees from its overseas detention centre on Nauru could be relocated, the Post has learned. Separate sources, who cannot be named because of the sensitivity of the ongoing negotiations, ...
Daniel Pye and Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/refugee-hous
Woman arrested in kampot land dispute
A 67-year-old woman from Kampot province was arrested Wednesday for attempting to prevent a construction company from clearing land she says belongs to her, police said. The arrested woman, Hin Srin, is part of a group of 12 families in Kompong Trach district who have been ...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/woman-arrested-in-kampot-land-dispute-66980/
Land at risk: Families in Kratie wary over moves
Kratie town and provincial administrators met with representatives of families living alongside Kratie Town Hall yesterday after receiving a petition expressing villagers’ concern that the town hall planned to expand its premises onto their land. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-risk-families-kratie-wary-over-moves
NGO says legal action over land disputes on the rise
The number of people charged in land disputes across the country so far this year has already surpassed the number of charges in all of 2013 in what rights group Adhoc on Tuesday called an “alarming” increase in legal action against those wrapped up in ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngo-says-legal-action-over-land-disputes-on-the-rise-66873/
Capital clash sees 10 injured
At least 10 people, one a 4-year-old child, were injured in a clash in the capital yesterday when security forces used electric batons to disperse about 300 villagers from Kratie province embroiled in a land dispute with a South Korean agribusiness. The villagers, from Kratie’s Snuol ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/capital-clash-sees-10-injured
Protesters Clash With Police Outside Premier’s Home
Hundreds of housing rights protesters and evictees clashed with security forces outside Phnom Penh on Monday, leaving at least nine people with minor injuries. The clash was one of the first since major violence over Freedom Park in the capital in July. Protesters gathered outside the National ...
Suy Heimkhemra
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/protesters-clash-with-police-outside-premier-home/2417160.html
Sam Rainsy vows to help Lor Peang villagers through national mechanism
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy met Thursday with Lor Peang villagers who suffered from land grabbing in Kampong Chhnang province. They have just arrived in Phnom Penh after a long distance walking from Kampong Chhang to demand justice over land dispute with KDC company, and have now ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=MjZkOTdjMmQ2ODE
Despite police blockade, KDC villagers reach Phnom Penh
A day after three of their community members were arrested following a violent encounter with police, about 50 villagers from Kompong Chhnang province forged ahead with a peaceful march toward Phnom Penh on Wednesday, but were temporarily blocked by police officials in Russei Keo district. The ...
Kuch Naren and Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/despite-police-blockade-kdc-villagers-reach-phnom-penh-66465/
Fresh arrests for embattled KDC villagers
Three men embroiled in a land dispute with a company owned by the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem were arrested Tuesday while marching with about 50 fellow villagers from Kompong Chhnang province’s Lor Peang village to Phnom Penh. The villagers planned to walk ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fresh-arrests-for-embattled-kdc-villagers-66343/
Hundreds protest: Land grab feared after posts appear
Five hundred villagers in Preah Vihear province protested yesterday outside the office of FP Malaysia Plantation Company, which they say is attempting to take their land. Rith Sothon, a village representative in Preah Vihear’s Kulen district, said the villagers filed a complaint after the company placed ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hundreds-protest-land-grab-feared-after-posts-appear