Land
Boeung Kak villagers, city officials talking titles
- 7 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Civil society / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
- Boeung Kak / Boeung Kak Lake / Borei Keila / Chan Puthisak / Disputed Land / ELCs / En Saphorn / Human Rights / land and housing rights / land conflict / Land dispute / Land Management Ministry / Land rights / Land titles / land titling / NGO Sahmakum Teang Tnaut / NGOs / nongovernmental organizations / Pa Socheatvong / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh City Hall / Phnom Penh Governor / Resettlement / Sahmakum Teang Tnaut / Srah Chak / STT Program Co-ordinator / Thmor Kol / Thmor Kol community / villagers / water cannons
Local authorities met with Boeung Kak community members yesterday to register villagers left out of the oft-criticised resettlement scheme as a first step to providing them with titles and onsite housing. More than 10 officials including police, commune and village chief, as well as representatives of ...
Satellite cities a solution for overcrowded Phnom Penh
- 6 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Cities / Economy and commerce / Investment / Land / Phnom Penh
- Boeung Kak Lake / CamKo City / Chrek Soknim / Chroy Changva City / commercial land / construction / Construction projects / Diamond Island / Infrastructure / Ministry of Land Management Urban Planning and Construction / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh City Hall / Population growth / PPCH / Property / Property Development / Real estate / satellite cities / suburban areas / Traffic / urbanization / Vtrust Property Co / ក្រុមហ៊ុនអចលនទ្រព្យ VTrust
The coming sprawls of Phnom Penh’s new satellite cities will bring about not only opportunities but also challenges for the population. “Any urban area has to sprawl outside the main city areas so that it can keep up with the increasing demand of commercial land,” said ...
Ratanakkiri Dispute Case Drags on
- 6 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Social development
- Adhoc / Adhoc provincial coordinator / Chhay Thy / construction / Disputed Land / ethnic minorities / evictions / Farmland / illegal construction / Keh Chung commune / land clearing / land conflicts / land deals / Land dispute / Land rights / Ly Sokkim Co Ltd / Par Or Village / protests / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Ratanakkiri provincial court / Ratanakkiri Provincial Court Prosecutor / Ros Saram / Tampuon / villagers
A village chief and an ethnic minority Tompuon villager were the latest people brought before the Ratanakkiri court for questioning after a private company accused villagers of destroying its property. Kvas Cheav, 57, village chief of Par Or in Keh Chung commune, told the Post that ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060666099/National/ratanakkri-dispute-case-drags-on.html
On World Environment Day, a Call to Save Cambodia’s Forests
- 6 June 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Environmental impact assessments / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Rivers and lakes / Water resources
- agro-industry / agro-industry companies / Coalition of Cambodian Farmers Community / deforestation / Demonstrations / EIAs / ELCs / endangered animals / Endangered wildlife / environmental impact assessments / Environmental Protection / forest cover / forest protection / Forests / Hun Sen / illegal logging / National Assembly / Prime Minister Hun Sen / private concessionaires / Protected areas / protests / rubber / rubber plantations / wildlife / World Environment Day / World Wildlife Fund / WWF
About 200 people celebrating World Environment Day on Wednesday gathered in front of the National Assembly to submit a petition asking the government to stop the destruction of Cambodia’s forests. A report released by the WWF last month said that Cambodia has lost almost a ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/on-world-environment-day-a-call-to-save-cambodias-forests-29329/
Forest officials involved in logging, villagers say
- 5 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber / National parks and wildlife sanctuaries / Protected areas / Protected forest / Public land lease
- Binh Phuoc Kratie Rubber 1 / Binh Phuoc Kratie Rubber 1 Company / Binh Phuoc Kratie Rubber 2 / Binh Phuoc Kratie Rubber 2 Company / Cambodian Center for Human Rights / CCHR / conservation area / deforestation / Disputed Land / Eastern Rubber (Cambodia) / Eastern Rubber (Cambodia) company / ELC moratorium / ELCs / FA / forest patrols / forest protection / forest protection laws / Forestry Administration / Forests / Hun Sen / illegal logging / kratie / Kratie Province / logging / Ministry of Environment / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Protected areas / protected forest / rubber / rubber plantations / Seima Protection Forest / Snuol district / Snuol Wildlife Sanctuary / timber / Vietnamese companies / wildlife sanctuaries
Communities living in the protected Snuol wildlife sanctuary in Kratie province said yesterday that the sanctuary was being destroyed by private companies acting in collusion with local wildlife officers. Snuol forest community representative Mom Sakim said private interests were claiming large areas of the sanctuary without ...
Families Left Worse off After Railway Project
- 5 June 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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Phnom Penh families being pushed to the city’s outskirts to make way for a $142.6 million railway renovation project funded by Australia and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are falling into debt and finding it harder to earn money and access healthcare according to a ...
Authorities Deny Abuses at Thai Plantation Tied To CPP Senator
- 4 June 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Human rights / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development / Sugar
- CPP / CPP Senator / crops / deputy governor Lon An / Disputed Land / EC / economic land concession / ELC / ELCs / Equitable Cambodia / eviction / forced eviction / illegal eviction / Khon Kaen Sugar / Koh Kong / Land dispute / land eviction / LICHADO / Lon An / Ly Yong Phat / Mitr Phol / National Human Rights Commission of Thailand / Oddar Meanchey / right abuse / rights groups / Senate / sugar / sugar cane / sugar cane plantations / Thai Plantation / Thailand
Oddar Meanchey province deputy governor Lon An yesterday confirmed CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat’s involvement in a trio of sugar cane plantations that rights groups took to the National Human rights Commission of Thailand last week, but denied their allegations of rights abuses. The deputy ...
Try Pheap given OK to harvest yellow vine
- 4 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Energy / Environment and natural resources / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Generation and distribution facilities / Hydropower dams / Investment / Land / Law and judiciary / Logging and timber / Pollution and waste / Public land lease / Renewable energy production / Social development
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Logging baron Try Pheap’s MDS Import Export Co, Ltd has been granted a licence to collect and process the controversial plant known as yellow vine around the Stung Atay hydropower dam in the Cardamom Mountains, according to documents received by the Post yesterday. The vine has ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060466045/National/try-pheap-given-ok-to-harvest-yellow-vine.html
Mekong Communities Tell of Hardship From Hydropower Dams
- 4 June 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agriculture and fishing / Development policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Energy / Environment and natural resources / Fishing, fisheries and aquaculture / Generation and distribution facilities / Hydropower dams / Land / Renewable energy production / Rivers and lakes / Water resources
- Agriculture & Agri-business / Brou ethnic minority / Chaing Rai / Chaing Rai province / Chinese dams / Chinese embassy / Chinese Embassy in Thailand / compensation / dam construction / dam development / Dams / ecosystems / EIAs / Electricity / electricity production / energy / environmental impact assessments / environmentalism / evictions / Fish / fisheries / flooding / Hydrolangcang International Energy Company / hydropower / Hydropower dams / hydropower development / indigenous people / International Rivers / involuntary resettlement / Langcang River / Lower Mekong Region / Lower Sesan 2 dam / Mekong Lanna network / Mekong Lanna network coordinator Somsak Tiyata / Mekong region / Mekong river / NGO Forum / Phnom Penh / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Relocation / Reservoirs / Resettlement / Royal Government of Cambodia / Royal Group / Royal Group Cambodia / Royal Group Conglomerate / Royal Group of Companies / Sesan river / Stung Treng / Stung Treng Province / Thailand / transparency / tributaries / Veun sai district / Yali Falls dam
About 200 people from Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia affected by hydropower dam projects on the Mekong River and its tributaries gathered in Phnom Penh yesterday to share their experiences of how their lives have been adversely affected since the dams were constructed. Speaking at the ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mekong-communities-tell-of-hardship-from-hydropower-dams-28793/
Agreement to boost construction sector
- 3 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Industries / Investment / Land / Manufacturing / Real estate
- Canadia Bank / CCA / construction / construction sector / construction standard / Constructors Association / Diamond Island satellite city / Im Chhun Lim / Ministry of Land Management Urban Planning and Construction / Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh satellite cities / Pung Kheav Se / Real estate / real estate sector / satellite city
An agreement was signed between Cambodia’s Constructors Association (CCA) and the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction two days ago, to tighten enforcement on construction companies here in making them meet industry standards. The ministry’s head, Im Chhun Lim, said that Cambodia’s construction and ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060366007/Business/agreement-to-boost-construction-sector.html
Sugar firm under fire
- 3 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Biofuel crops / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Exports / Human rights / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development / Sugar / The poor / Trade
- Angkor Sugar / Asia / blood sugar / child labour / Chongkal district / duty-free trade preferences / Eang Vuthy / ELC / Equitable Cambodia / EU / European Parliament / European Union aid / Everything But Arms / Food insecurity / force eviction / Human Rights / human rights abuses / Kampong Speu Province / Koh Kong / Koh Kong Province / KSL / Land concession / land conflict / Land dispute / land eviction / Land Law / LICADHO / Ly Yong Phat / Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation / O’Bat Moun / Oddar Meanchey Province / Phnom Penh Sugar Company / Senator Ly Yong Phat / social impact assessments / Somrang district / sugar / sugar cane-planting concessionaires / Sugar company / sugar concession / sugar plantations / Tate and Lyle / Thai conglomerate / Thai human rights body / Thai national human rights commission / Thai sugar manufacturer KSL / Thailand / Tonle Sugar Cane / trade preferences
Asia’s largest sugar company has been accused of torching hundreds of homes, orchestrating the imprisonment of a pregnant activist and using security forces to beat villagers – among a raft of other grave human rights abuses – by communities in Oddar Meanchey province. The allegations levelled ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060366024/National/sugar-firm-under-fire.html
$1.3m SEZ Japanese Restaurant Opens Doors
- 3 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Investment / Special economic zones
- Aeon / Aeon Mall (Cambodia) Co Ltd / AEON Microfinance (Cambodia) Co Ltd / Cambodia / Cambodia-Japan bilateral trade / Deputy Prime Minister Men Sam An / foreign investments / investments / Japan External Trade Organization / Japanese companies / Japanese Embassy / Japanese investment / job creation / Keiaisha Company CEO / Men Sam An / Morihiro Iijima / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone / PPSEZ / SEZ / Special Economic Zone / Tokyo
In a $1.3 million investment, a new Japanese restaurant opened in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ) last week amid the large presence of Japanese companies in the area. The 1,000-square-metre Tokyo Restaurant looks to “help to [showcase] the culture of Japanese food, and provide ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060366009/Business/1-3m-sez-japanese-restaurant-opens-doors.html
Homes, Trees Destroyed, Villagers Say
- 31 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
- Adhoc / Adhoc provincial coordinator / Che Chei / Corruption / destruction / Disputed Land / ELCs / evictions / Farm Land / forced evictions / human rights violations / illegal logging / land conflict / Land dispute / MDS Import Export Co Ltd / Oknha Try Pheap / Phoung Sothear / Prom Ngorn / Pursat / Pursat Province / rubber / rubber trees / social land concessions / Thai Border / Thailand / Thma Da Commune Chief / Veal Veng district / Veal Veng District Governor / villagers
About 50 police, soldiers and environmental officials yesterday demolished two houses and cut down thousands of trees belonging to families who are locked in a land dispute with MDS Import Export Co, owned by tycoon Try Pheap, villagers in Pursat province claimed. Fellow villager Khouch ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013053165987/National/homes-trees-destroyed-villagers-say.html
Jarai Villagers Ask UN for Help in Land Fight
- 31 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forests and forestry / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
- community forest / community land / Company 72 / Day Dong Yoeung Company / Disputed Land / ELCs / ethnic Jarai / ethnic Jarai minority / ethnic Jarai villagers / Forest / land conflicts / land disputes / land protests / Lom village / Lom Village Chief / Lom Villagers / NGO-led Workshop / O’Yadav district / Paknhai commune / Phnom Penh / protests / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Romas Chvat / Sev Hlin / student volunteer program / Stung Treng / Stung Treng Province / UN / United Nations / Vietnamese company / villagers
More than 300 ethnic Jarai families from Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district in longstanding land disputes with two Vietnamese land concessionaires submitted a petition to UN human rights officers yesterday asking for help. Village representative Romas Chvat said locals were participating in an NGO-led workshop on protest ...
Ethnic Banong Thwart Group of Illegal Loggers in Mondolkiri
- 31 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Environment and natural resources / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Logging and timber / Social development
- Banong / Banong ethic minority / Banong graveyard / Bosra commune / community forest / deforestation / ethic minority villagers / forest clearing / Forests / illegal logging / illegal timber trade / Indigenous Communities / Kompong Cham / Kompong Cham Province / logging / mondolkiri / Mondolkiri District Governor Nguon Saran / Mondolkiri Province / NFTPs / Nguon Saran / Non Forest Timber Products / Poulu Forestry Community / Preach Chreda district / Protected areas / state land / timber
More than 100 Banong ethic minority villagers in Mondolkiri province on Wednesday stopped and briefly apprehended a group of 11 outsiders who they say were caught illegally logging timber in the area, villagers said yesterday. The villagers say that they took it upon themselves to stop ...
Villagers Say Company Deceived Them in Deal
Five Koh Kong families embroiled in an ongoing land dispute with Heng Huy Agriculture Company were accompanied by more than 50 villagers yesterday as they went to court to clarify why they are asking for contracts signed with the company to be annulled. Pok Yon, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013053065936/National/villagers-say-company-deceived-them-in-deal.html
Families seek to Farm Land Claimed by RCAF
- 30 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Rice
- Adhoc / Agriculture & Agri-business / Bantey Meanchey / Bantey Meanchey Province / border issues / border protection / borders / Brigadier General Lanh Kao / Cassava / Chop Vary Commune / crops / Disputed Land / farming / Farmland / General Lanh Kao / harvesting / illegal border crossing / illegal migrant workers / land ownership / Lanh Kao / migrants / migration / Military soldiers / Preah Net Preah / Preah Netr Preah commune / Preah Netr Preah district / RCAF / RCAF artillery unit / RCAF Brigadier General Lanh Kao / RCAF headquarters / RCAF tank unit / rice / Rice Farming / rice paddy / Royal Cambodian Armed Forces / soldiers / Thai Border / Thailand
Some 300 families from Bantey Meanchey province’s Preah Netr Preah district-embroiled in two separate long-running disputes with Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF)-yesterday submitted complaints to the provincial governor asking for permission to temporarily farm on the land until the ownership dispute is resolved, villagers and ...
Water Cannon Crackdown on Cambodian Land Activists
- 29 May 2013
- Radio Free Asia
- Economy and commerce / Gender / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Women in development
- Adhoc / Boeng Kak / Boeung Kak / Borei Keila / City Hall spokesman Long Dyman / development projects / Factories / forced evictions / Garment factories / Human Rights / land activist Yorm Bopha / land and housing rights / land disputes / Land Rights Activist Tep Vanny / LICADHO / Long Dyman / minimum wages / Pa Socheatvong / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh City Hall / Phnom Penh Municipal Court / Phnom Penh municipal governor Pa Socheatvong / Police / protests / Resettlement / stun batons / Supreme Court / Supreme Court of Cambodia / Tep Vanny / Thmar Koul / wages / water cannons / Yorm Bopha
Cambodian police used water cannons Wednesday to disperse around 200 women demanding a quick resolution to long-running land disputes, knocking at least three of the protesters, including a 72-year-old, unconscious. The move came two days after authorities used stun batons to disperse a protest over wages ...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/land-05292013164116.html
Villagers Petition Against Crematorium’s Removal
- 29 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Pollution and waste
- Bak Kheng pagoda / commercial development / Council of Ministers / Council of Ministers Secretary of State Prak Sokhon / crematoriums / development projects / Eng Kaing Development Company / Khtor Pagoda / Ministry of Cults and Religion / Ministry of Cults and Religions department of complaints and dissolution / National Road 6A / Net Chambo / pagodas / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh City Hall / pollution / Prak Sokhon / Prek Liep Commune / protests / Russei Keo district / schools / Secretary of State Prak Sokhon / smoke pollution
More than 1,000 villagers in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district have signed a petition protesting the removal of a crematorium that is currently on land slated for a large development project. According to a letter from the Council of Ministers addressed to the Ministry of Cults ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-petition-against-crematoriums-removal-27487/
Thai border SEZs set for discussion next month
- 29 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Exports / Imports / Investment / Special economic zones / Trade
- agri-business / Agriculture & Agri-business / agro-industry / Aranyaprathet District / Banteay Meancheay / Cambodia / Cambodia Institute of Development Study / Cambodian-Thai border / Kang Chandararot / Khlong Yai district / Koh Kong / Long Visalo / Minister of Foreign Affairs / Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Poipet town / Sa Keo / SEZ / Special Economic Zone / Surapong Tovichakchaikul / Thai foreign minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul / Thailand / Trat
In an effort to boost trade activity between Thailand and Cambodia, both countries will discuss plans for two special economic zones along the Thai-Cambodian border next month, according to the secretary of state at the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday. “It will provide us ...
Hor Kimsay and Anne Renzenbrink
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052965902/Business/thai-border-sezs-set-for-discussion-next-month.html
Thais to urge transport push
- 28 May 2013
- Bangkok Post
- Economy and commerce / Infrastructure / Land / Rail / Transport infrastructure and facilities
- Aranyaprathet District / Aranyaprathet-Ban Klong Luek / Ban Nong Aien / Ban Strung Bot / Banteay Meanjeay province / Banteay Meanteay / border areas / border checkpoints / borders / Dams / Electricity / Hor Namhong / hydropower / hydropower plant / Koh Kong / Koh Kong Province / Mae Sot district / Minister of Foreign Affairs Hor Namhong / Myanmar / Phnom Penh / Poipet / Poipet district / Rail projects / Railways / ranyaprathet-Ban Klong Luek line / roads / Sa Kaeo / Sa Kaeo province / Saair Ampur / Sisophon line / Special Economic Zones / Strung Num / Surapong Tovichakchaikul / Tak / Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul / Thai-Cambodia Border / Thailand / Trat Province
Thailand will propose to Cambodia that they jointly develop border areas and transport links between the two countries, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul said yesterday. Thailand will also develop roads, railways and border checkpoints, he said. Proposed road projects include improving roads Nos.5, ...
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/352101/thais-to-urge-transport-push
10 Tons of rosewood seized
- 28 May 2013
- The Cambodia Herald
- Environment and natural resources / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Logging and timber
- Battambang / Battambang Province / border patrol officers / Cassava / cassava roots / deforestation / Fuso / illegal logging / Military / military officers / Ou Klakmom / Ou Klakmom village / park preservationists / rosewood / Samlot District / Song commune
Ten tons of rosewood have been uncovered under cassava roots in a raid late night Monday. The raid took place in the village of Ou Klakmom in the Song commune of the Samlot district and was made with the collaboration between park preservationists, military officers and ...
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=MWUwZWI1ODNmNjQ
Firms’ Timber Trade Decried
- 28 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Exports / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Human rights / Land / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Social development / Trade
- Adhoc / Beoung Per / Beoung Per Wildlife Sanctuary / Cambodian Center for Human Rights / CCHR / Chhim Savuth / CRCK / CRCK Company / deforestation / ELCs / ELCs Law / environmental impact / Exports / Forest / Hoeun Sopheap / illegal logging / Illegal poaching / illegal timber trade / Kampong Thom Province / Kampong Thom Provincial Governor / logging / luxury timber / natural resources / Oknha Try Pheap / Preah Vihear / Prey Lang / Prey Lang Community Representative / Prey Long Forest / protected area / protected forest / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Rovieng District / rubber / Rubber plantation / Sandan district / timber / Try Pheap Import and Export / Try Pheap Import Export Co Ltd / Try Pheap Import Export Company / Uth Sam Orn / Vietnamese border / Vietnamese company / Vietnamese rubber company CRCK / water / WaterSHED / wildlife / Wildlife Sanctuary / Wood
Two firms holding concessions in rapidly disappearing northern forests are amassing stockpiles of tens of thousands of luxury logs cut both within and outside their leases and trucking them on to Vietnam, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights has alleged. CCHR investigators that tracked logging operations ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052865880/National/firms-timber-trade-decried.html
Villagers Seize Trucks in Protest
- 28 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Social development
- agro-industry / Boeung Char commune / Community Representative / deforestation / Disputed Land / ELCs / eviction / Farm Land / Forest / Illegal poaching / Kompong Cham / Kompong Cham Province / Korea / Korean company / kratie / Kratie Province / land conflict / Land dispute / Land protest / Land-grabbing / protests / Sam No / Sambor district / Sambor District Governor / Seng Sotha / Stung Treng / Stung Treng Province / Think Biotech / Think Biotech Timber Company / timber / villagers
More than 300 protesters seized two company trucks outside the Kratie office of Korean-owned timber company Think Biotech Co yesterday as protests by villagers who allege land-grabbing continued for a second day. “We have seized the company’s two trucks to ask the company to come ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052865873/National/villagers-seize-trucks-in-protest.html