Social development
Ethnic minorities and indigenous people
Natives urge end to land rows
More than 800 families of the Kui indigenous communities of Salachhdor and Chaom Prich living on over 4,000ha in Kampong Thom province are appealing to the authorities for a speedy resolution to land disputes caused by encroachment by outside parties. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/natives-urge-end-land-rows
HAGL denies Ratanakkiri land clearing
Five civil society organisations urged the government to take action against Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL), a Vietnamese agribusiness firm, for alleged land clearing activities on areas allocated to indigenous communities in Ratanakkiri province’s Andong Meas district. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hagl-denies-ratanakkiri-land-clearing
Mondulkiri Bunong community seeks return of forest land
More than 200 indigenous Bunong families in Mondulkiri province have asked authorities to retrieve 5ha of community forest land they claim had been secretly stolen from them by speculators. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mondulkiri-bunong-community-seeks-return-forest-land
Mondulkiri Bunong irked over land sales
Some 190 Bunong indigenous people in Mondulkiri province are expressing concern that land sales in the Tring and Pupe mountain areas could result in a loss of cultural sites and their ancestral identities. Chean Vanna, one of their representatives in Pou Lung village, told The Post ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mondulkiri-bunong-irked-over-land-sales
Preah Vihear court drops charges against villagers
The Preah Vihear Provincial Court has dropped all charges against eight ethnic Kuoy villagers who were in a land dispute with the Hengfu Group Sugar Industry Co Ltd since 2014. Wednesday’s decision was made by the judge who tried the case on June 10. The eight ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-court-drops-charges-against-villagers
Kuoy cry foul over land loss
The Kuoy indigenous community in Preah Vihear are seeking Prime Minister Hun Sen’s intervention after they claimed provincial authorities moved the Chheb district land border 3km into their commune land. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50743340/kuoy-cry-foul-over-land-loss/
Bunong ask gov’t to remove land markers
The Bunong ethnic community in Mondulkiri province has asked that environment officials remove land markers at the Nam Lear Wildlife Sanctuary near the Tuol Svay environmental headquarters. They also urged officials to take legal action against those who planted them. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bunong-ask-govt-remove-land-markers
E-Learning via radio for ethnic students
The Education Ministry will broadcast live education programmes in multiple languages on radio for indigenous children while schools nationwide are temporarily closed to prevent a coronavirus spread. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50715583/e-learning-via-radio-for-ethnic-students/
Boundary markers create concerns for indigenous people
The Bunong indigenous people in Mondulkiri province have expressed concerns about deforestation in the Phnom Nam Lyr Wildlife Sanctuary after a forest community spotted machinery in an off-limits area and noticed markers planted in the surrounding land. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/boundary-markers-create-concerns-indigenous-people
Poor families claim land concession sold to others
A group of 160 poor families from the Bunong indigenous community in Mondulkiri province’s Pech Chreada district have filed a complaint against their representative, accusing him of selling land earmarked for them as part of a social land concession. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poor-families-claim-land-concession-sold-others
Mondulkiri officials ‘cleared forest’
Members of the indigenous Bunong tribe and civil society organisations on Wednesday filed a complaint against local authorities in Mondulkiri for illegally clearing 300ha of protected forest. The cleared land is located in O’Raing district’s Pou Les village. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mondulkiri-officials-cleared-forest
Bunong complain of logging at Phnom Preah mountain
The Bunong ethnic community in Mondulkiri province’s Me Pai village, Pou Chrei commune, in Pech Chreada district alleged that an estimated 100ha of protected forest at the foot of the Phnom Preah mountain had been illegally logged with help from local authorities. Sreunh Sinuon, a ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bunong-complain-logging-phnom-preah-mountain
Ministry highlights work to register indigenous lands
The Land Management Ministry has announced it has officially registered thousands of hectares of land for scores of ethnic minority communities across the Kingdom. In a statement issued after the meeting, the ministry said so far it has registered 28,522 hectares of indigenous land to ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50674242/ministry-highlights-work-to-register-indigenous-lands
Mondulkiri community objects to land demarcation
Representatives of the indigenous community in Mondulkiri province on Wednesday submitted three petitions to voice their objection against the planting of stone markers around the Doh Kramom mountain area by provincial officials last week. However, provincial officials said the case is still under review. A ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mondulkiri-community-objects-land-demarcation
Markers set in Doh Kramom area to prevent encroachment
The provincial administration and the Department of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction in Mondulkiri province planted 53 stone markers around the Doh Kramom mountain area to protect it from any further encroachments. But the indigenous community claimed that the planting of markers, which was ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/markers-set-doh-kramom-area-prevent-encroachment
Indigenous communities want more transparency around mining projects
Indigenous community representatives told a forum on extractive industries on Friday that they were concerned about the effects mining projects in their areas could have on their health and livelihoods, and asked that they be better informed by companies and the government. ...
Hun Sirivadh
https://vodenglish.news/indigenous-communities-want-more-transparency-around-mining-projects/
Indigenous groups call on gov’t for speedy registration of collective land
Representatives of 24 indigenous groups from 15 provinces on Thursday urged the government to solve their outstanding land dispute and expedite the process of registering their collective farmland to prevent private companies grabbing it. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/indigenous-groups-call-govt-speedy-registration-collective-land
Bunong group attends French court hearing over land dispute
Nine representatives of the Bunong indigenous communities in Mondulkiri province who claimed to have fallen victim to a development project by French firm Socfin-KCD appeared for questioning at the Tribunal of Nanterre in France on Tuesday. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bunong-group-attends-french-court-hearing-over-land-dispute
Mondulkiri officials face land clearing collusion charges
A Mondulkiri commune chief and its head of police are among three people who could face up to five years in jail for allegedly allowing protected forest to be illegally cleared after complaints were filed with the provincial court. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mkiri-officials-face-land-clearing-collusion-charges
NGO, indigenous communities call for stronger conservation efforts
The NGO Forum on Cambodia and indigenous communities have called for stronger efforts on the conservation of indigenous languages and the development of indigenous peoples in the Kingdom. The request was made as more than 300 million indigenous people in over 90 countries around the world ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50642249/ngo-indigenous-communities-call-for-stronger-conservation-efforts/
Kampong Speu indigenous group concerned over land loss
The Suoy indigenous people of the Kor Dauntey community in Kampong Speu have expressed concerns over the loss of reserve land for future generations after allegedly receiving a $2,500 per hectare offer. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampong-speu-indigenous-group-concerned-over-land-loss
Socfin Cambodia announces success of 2018 CSR initiatives
Socfin Cambodia, a leader in the development and management of rubber plantations in the Kingdom, announced its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) accomplishments in a press release issued on Monday. ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/socfin-cambodia-announces-success-2018-csr-initiatives
Complaint filed against sawmill boss
A forest protection community in Pech Chreada district’s Bou Sra commune in Mondulkiri province submitted a formal complaint on Tuesday against Saroeun Mab, the owner of four illegal sawmills who allegedly threatened three activists after they had taken photographs of suspected illegal logging in the ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/complaint-filed-against-sawmill-boss
Mondulkiri forest community claim they received death threats from sawmill boss
Three community activists from Bou Sra commune in Mondulkiri province’s Pech Chreada district have claimed that they received death threats from the owner of four sawmills after they took photographs of alleged illegal logging from the community forest. ...