Land
Land tenure and land titling
Troubled Village Embroiled In New Land Disputes
- 20 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Rubber / Social development / Social land concessions
- agro-industry companies / Appeal Court / Beehive Radio / Beehive radio owner Mam Sonando / broma / Broma village / Casotim / Cham / Chan Kong / community forest / Court of Appeal / Disputed Land / ELCs / ethnic Cham minorities / Farmland / forced evictions / forest clearing / Heng Chantha / kratie / Kratie district governor / Kratie district governor Sam Sarith / Kratie Province / Kratie provincial government department of land management / Mam Sonando / Phnom Penh Municipal Court / Pro Ma / Pro Mar / rubber / Rubber plantation / Sam Sarith / social land concessions
A year after a massive military raid here that left a 14-year old girl dead and hundreds of families evicted, there remains little sign of the original land dispute that turned this rural village into a hotbed of agitation. But a new firm and a government-issued ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/troubled-village-embroiled-in-new-land-disputes-25184/
Trade Deal Threat Still On Table
- 20 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Crop products and commodities / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / European Union aid / Exports / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Sugar / Trade
- Cambodian Trade Minister Cham Prasidh / Cham Prasidh / Convention Concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment / Disputed Land / Eang Vuthy / EBA / economic land concession / Economic Land Concessions (ELCs) / ELC / ELCs / Equitable Cambodia / European Commission / European Commission Member / European Commission Vice President / European Parliament / European Union aid / Everything But Arms / International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights / Jean-Francois Cautain / Kampong Speu / Karel De Gucht / Katherine Ashton / Land rights / Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh / NGOs / no-tariff agreement / sugar / sugar industry / Trade / trade deals
The European union’s executive arm has responded to its parliamentarians’ concerns over rights abuses stemming from Cambodia’s economic land concessions, maintaining that, should the need arise, it “will be ready” to withdraw from its preferential trade agreements with the Kingdom. In a joint letter to concerned ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052065716/National/trade-deal-threat-still-on-table.html
Pheapimex Opponent Arrested
- 20 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease
- Bin Vanna / Cambodian Peace Network / Disputed Land / Economic Land Concessions (ELCs) / ELCs / Fraud / Krakor district / Krakor District Police Chief Bin Vanna / Kuch Veng / Land dispute / land eviction / Land-grabbing / Lun Sivy / Pheapimex / Pheapimex Company / Pheapimex Group / Pursat / Pursat Province / Tycoons
A well-known community representative who has long battled alleged land-grabbing by economic land concessionaire Pheapimex Group was arrested on fraud accusations and jailed in Pursat province’s Krakor district yesterday.Fellow community representative Lun Sivy, 42, said Kuch Veng, a member of the Cambodian Peace Network, was ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052065715/National/pheapimex-opponent-arrested.html
Ethnic villagers, firm battle over Ratanakkiri plot
- 20 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Investment / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
- Adhoc / Bakeo district / Chhay Thy / ethnic minority / Keh Chung commune / Keh Chung commune chief / land conflict / Land dispute / land title / Land-grabbing / lawsuit / Ly Sokkim Co Ltd / Ministry of Commerce / Par Or Adhoc provincial co-ordinator Chhay Thy / ratanak kiri / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri court / Rocham Lai / Tompuon / warrant
A local official and four ethnic minority Tompuon villagers appeared in a Ratanakkiri court on Friday to face accusations of land-grabbing and protesting against a private company that purchased their land in 2007, authorities said yesterday. Rocham Pheun, an assistant to the chief of Keh Chung ...
EU Won’t Investigate Land Concessions—for Now
- 20 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Crop products and commodities / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / European Union aid / Exports / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development / Sugar / Trade
- Cambodian Government / Catherine Ashton / duty free goods / duty-free access / EBA / Economics / ELCs / EU / EU duty free access / EU foreign affairs representative / EU high representative for foreign affairs Catherine Ashton / EU high representative for security policy / EU high representative for security policy Catherine Ashton / EU trade commissioner / European Commission / European Council / European Council President Herman van Rompuy / European Parliament / European Union aid / European Union foreign affairs representative / European Union trade commissioner / Everything but Arms trade agreement / Everything but arms trade scheme / Everything But Arms Treaty / Exports / garment sector / garments / garments industry / Generalized System of Preferences / GSP / Herman Van Rompuy / Human Rights / Hun Sen / Karel De Gucht / Koh Kong / Koh Kong Province / Land titles / London / Prime Minister Hun Sen / RGC / Royal Government of Cambodia / sugar / sugar plantations / Surya Subedi / Tate & Lyle / Trade EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht / trade partners / U.N.’s special rapporteur on human rights to Cambodia Surya Subedi / UK / UN special rapporteur on human rights / UN special rapporteur on human rights to Cambodia / UN special rapporteur on human rights to Cambodia Surya Subedi / United Kingdom
The trade commissioner and foreign affairs representative of the European Union (E.U.) have turned down a request from 13 members of the European Parliament that they immediately investigate Cambodia’s much criticized economic land concessions, but said they were monitoring the issue closely. In a March letter ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eu-wont-investigate-land-concessions-for-now-25194/
Ministers sign deals to bolster trust
- 18 May 2013
- Bangkok Post
- Environment and natural resources / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Industries / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber / Tourism
- 9th General Border Committee / ACM Sukumpol / border disputes / border relations / borders / Cambodian Mine Action Center / Cambodian Mine Action Centre / Cambodian-Thai border / Cambodian-Thailand relations / Col Hun Manith / Deputy Defence Minister Neang Paht / drug smuggling / education / GBC / GBC meeting / General Border Committee / General Border Committee meeting / General Tea Bahn / Health care / Human Rights / ICJ / illegal logging / International Court of Justice / job creation / Joint Working Group meeting / Joint Working Group meetings / JWG / JWG meeting / landmine clearance / logging / Minister of Defence Sukumpol Suwanatat / Minister of Defence Tea Bahn / Minister of Defense Sukumpol Suwanatat / Ministry of Defense / Preah Vihear Temple / Preah Vihear temple dispute / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Rayong / Sukumpol Suwanatat / Tea Bahn / Thai Deputy Supreme Commander Worapong Sanganetra / Thai JWG chief Gen Worapong Sanganetra / Thai Minister of Defence Sukumpol Suwanatat / Thai Minister of Defense Sukumpol Suwanatat / Thailand / Tourism / Wang Chan district / Wangjuntr Golf Park / Worapong Sanganetra
Thailand and Cambodia have signed four new agreements focused on bolstering trust and maintaining security. Defence Minister Sukumpol Suwanatat made the announcement after the 9th GBC meeting at Wangjuntr Golf Park in Rayong’s Wang Chan district. He said one of the four agreements concerned the spread of ...
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/350635/ministers-sign-deals-to-bolster-trust
Jarai Man Exiled After He Opposes Land Deal
- 17 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forests and forestry / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Social development
- Adhoc / Adhoc provincial co-ordinator / Chhay Thy / community forest / Disputed Land / ethnic Jarai / ethnic Jarai minority / ethnic Jarai villagers / ethnic minorities / Forest / indigenous people / O’Yadav district / Ratanakiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Rocham Vin / Romas Svang / Ten Village / villagers / Ya Tung Commune / Ya Tung Commune Chief
Commune authorities in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadav district have allegedly banished a local resident for persisting with a lawsuit that accuses them of selling 500 hectares of community forest to two Cambodian developers for $300,000. Romas Svang, who is a member of the ethnic Jarai minority, filed ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051765682/National/jarai-man-exiled-after-he-opposes-land-deal.html
Charges in Ratanakkiri arson
- 16 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Investment / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease
- CRD / deputy prosecutor Mom Vanda / economic land concession / ELC / Hoang Anh Ratanakkiri / land conflict / Land dispute / Ly Sok Ngim / Mom Vanda / Nguyeng Hong Fou / plantation / Ratanakkiri provincial court / rubber / rubber business / rubber company / Rubber plantation / Sim Borin / Vietnamese rubber concessionaire
The Ratanakkiri Provincial Court yesterday charged two staffers of Vietnamese rubber concessionaire Hoang Anh Ratanakkiri (CRD) with causing intentional damage for allegedly setting fire to several homes belonging to a landowner with whom they were embroiled in a land dispute, deputy prosecutor Mom Vanda said. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051665652/National/charges-in-ratanakkiri-arson.html
Fear still lingers in Pro Ma
- 16 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease
- Beehive Radio director Mam Sonando / Casotim / Cassava / Chhlong / Chhlong district governor Som Sarith / deforestation / eviction / forced eviction / forest clearing / Kan Sovan / Kratie Province / Land dispute / land eviction / land title / land-titling program / Mam Sonando / Pro Mar / Pro Mar shooting / Som Sarith / Sreng Pho / Touch Rem
A year to the day since armed soldiers stormed into the remote village of Pro Mar in Kratie province, killing a 14-year-old girl, arresting her husband and evicting hundreds of families, Sreng Pho still has nightmares. “I’m really scared when I think back to that day ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051665654/National/fear-still-lingers-in-pro-ma.html
Two Held For Razing Huts In Land Dispute
- 15 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Environment and natural resources / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
- Cassava / cassava plantation / CRC Company / CRD Chief of Staff Ngvieng Hong Fou / CRD company / CRD rubber company / Deputy District Police Chief Phan Chanthon / destruction / Disputed Land / evictions / forced eviction / Global Witness / HAGL / Hoang Anh Gia Lai / Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) / Hoang Anh Ratanakkiri / land disputes / luxury timber / Meas Pov Bora / Ngvieng Hong Fou / O'Chum district / Phan Chanthon / Plantation Destructions / Provincial Minor Crimes Office / Provincial Minor Crimes Office Chief / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / rubber / Rubber plantation / rubber trees / timber / Vietnamese company / Vietnamese Firm Hoang Anh Gia Lai / Vietnamese rubber company / Vietnamese Rubber Group / villagers / Watchdog Group
Ratanakkiri provincial police on Monday arrested the chief of staff of a Vietnamese rubber concessionaire and his Cambodian translator who are believed to have burned down more than $5,000 worth of property related to a land dispute in O’Chum district, police said. Meas Pov Bora, chief ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051565632/National/two-held-for-razing-huts-in-land-dispute.html
Arrests Threatened In Ratanakkiri
- 15 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crime and law enforcement / Economic land concessions and plantations / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Public land lease / Social development
- Adhoc / Adhoc Senior Investigator Chan Saveth / Company 72 / deforestation / ELCs / ethnic Jarai / ethnic Jarai villagers / ethnic minorities / evictions / Farm Land / forced evictions / Forest / forest clearing / Forestry Administration / Land rights / Lom village’s Forestry Protection Committee Leader / Lom Villagers / Men Sarun Co Ltd / O’Yadav district / O’Yadav District Governor Dork Sar / Paknhai commune / protected area / protected forest / protests / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Sav Finh / Vietnamese company / Vietnamese Company 72 / villagers
Provincial authorities in Ratanakkiri have warned ethnic Jarai villagers that they will be arrested if they continue to stop bulldozers belonging to a Vietnamese company from clearing forest in O’Yadav district’s Paknhai commune, community leaders said yesterday. Sav Finh, leader of Lom village’s forestry protection committee, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051565625/National/arrests-threatened-in-ratanakkiri.html
IFC, Deutsche Bank respond to Global Witness report
- 14 May 2013
- Radio Free Asia
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Rubber
- Deutsche Bank / Deutsche Bank Head of Communications Michael West / Deutsche Bank Managing Director Michael West / Dong Phu Rubber / Dragon Capital / DWS / environmental management / forced evictions / Global Witness / HAGL / Hannfried von Hindenburg / Hoang Anh Gia Lai / Hoang Anh Gia Lai company / Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group / IFC / IFC Head of Communications Hannfried von Hindenburg / illegal logging / Investment / land acquisitions / Land grabs / Land rights / Michael West / rubber / Rubber Barons / Rubber Barons report / rubber plantations / social risk management / VEIL / Vietnam Rubber Group / Vietnamese rubber companies / VRG / World Bank
On May 13, we ran an interview with London-based NGO Global Witness accusing the Deutsche Bank and the International Finance Corporation of financing two Vietnamese rubber companies that are allegedly involved in land grabs in Cambodia and Laos. We asked both banks for a response ...
Vietnam rubber tycoon rejects land grabbing accusations
- 14 May 2013
- Thanh Nien News
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Rubber / Social development / The poor
- Cambodian Government / company shares / corporate environmental responsibility / corporate social responsibility / deforestation / Deutsche Bank / Doan Nguyen Duc / environmental responsibility / forced evictions / forest protection / Global Witness / Global Witnesses / HAGL / HAGL Group / HAGL Group chairman Doan Nguyen Duc / HAGL shares / Hoang Anh Gia Lai / Hoang Anh Gia Lai chairman Doan Nguyen Duc / Hoang Anh Gia Lai company / IFC / illegal logging / job creation / Kien Thuc news / land acquisitions / Laos / Laos government / Radio Australia / Royal Government of Cambodia / rubber / Rubber Barons / Rubber Barons report / Rubber Companies / rubber plantations / stock market / Taxes / VRG / World Bank
A Vietnamese rubber tycoon has rejected accusations by Global Witness, a group that campaigns on resource issues, that it was involved in a land grabbing crisis in Southeast Asia. Doan Nguyen Duc, the chairman of Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) Group, told Vietnamese media the information ...
Cambodia Plantations Not IFC’s First Controversy
- 14 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Rubber / Sihanoukville / Sugar
- Cambodia Airports / Deutsche Bank / Deutsche Bank spokesman Michael West / Dong Phu / DWS Vietnam Fund / Equitable Cambodia / forced evictions / forest clearing / Global Witness / Global witnesses report / HAGL / Hannfried von Hindenburg / Hoang Anh Gia Lai / IFC / IFC spokesman Hannfried von Hindenburg / IFC’s compliance ombudsman / illegal logging / KSL / Michael West / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh International Airport / Plantations / rubber / Rubber Barons / rubber plantations / Sihanoukville airport / sugar / sugar plantations / VEIL / Vietnam Enterprise Investment Limited / Vietnam Rubber Group / Vinci Group / World Bank
In the wake of a new report from environmental rights group Global Witness rebuking the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Deutsche Bank for investing in rubber plantations accused of illegal logging and forced evictions, both institutions have denied responsibility and deflected the blame ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-plantations-not-ifcs-first-controversy-23793/
Villagers Burn Down Soldiers’ Shelter on Disputed Land
- 14 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Land / Land tenure and land titling
- Adhoc / CIV Company Development Agro-Industry / Disputed Land / KDC / KDC agro-industry firm / Kompong Chhnang / Kompong Chhnang Province / Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court / Kompong Tralach district / land demarcation / Minister of Industry Mines and Energy Suy Sem / Ministry of Industry Mines and Energy / Ministry of Management / RCAF / Royal Cambodian Armed Forces / Ta Ches commune
Three members of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) on Monday filed a complaint with police in Kompong Chhnang province, accusing irate villagers of torching a wooden shelter built for them by the well-connected KDC agro-industry firm. The soldiers have accused local residents, who have been ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-burn-down-soldiers-shelter-on-disputed-land-23790/
Residents Rally At Palace For Release Of Land Activist
- 14 May 2013
- The Cambodia Herald
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease
- Amnesty International / Boeung Kok / Boeung Kok Community / Borei Keila / Borei Keila community / Disputed Land / ELCs / King Norodom Sihamoni / Land dispute / Ministry of Justice / Phnom Penh / PJ Prison / Prey Sar / Prey Sar Prison / protests / Royal Palace / Thmor Kol / Thmor Kol community / Yorm Bopha
Around 30 residents from Boeung Kok, Borei Kei and Thmor kol communities gathered and knelt down Monday in front of the Royal Palace to seek intervention from the King to release jailed land activist Yorm Bopha. In the petition, they asked him to intervene the ...
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=OWNiYWVhYmQ4ZmM
The canes of wrath
- 10 May 2013
- Southeast Asia Globe
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Exports / Human rights / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Public land lease / Social development / Sugar / Trade
- Agro-Business / agro-business firms / American Sugar Refinery Company / assault / Boycott Blood Sugar campaign / child labor / child labour / compensation / CPP / CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat / criminal activity / Dr Nirun Pitakwatchara / Dr Pung Chhiv Kek / EBA / economic land concession / education / ELC / ELC scheme / EU / EU in Cambodia ambassador Jean-Francois Cautain / Europe / European Parliament / European Union aid / Everything But Arms / Everything But Arms Agreement / Everything But Arms scheme / Everything But Arms Treaty / Exports / farming / forced evictions / Human Rights / human rights violations / illegal possession of land / ILO / International Labor Organisation / International Labour Organisation / Jean-Francois Cautain / Jones Day / Jones Day law firm / Kampong Speu / Kampong Speu Province / Khon Kaen Sugar Industry Public Company Limited / KKP / KKS / KKS industry / Koh Kong / Koh Kong Province / Koh Kong Sugar Industry / Koh Kong Sugar Plantation / KSL / labor / labour / land / Land grabs / Land rights / Land titles / Lawsuits / LICADHO / Licadho president Pung Chhiv Kek / livestock / London / Ly Yong Phat / National Human Rights Commission of Thailand / NGO Equitable Cambodia / NHRC / NHRC commissioner Dr Nirun Pitakwatchara / Nirun Pitakwatchara / Oddar Meanchey / Oddar Meanchey Province / OECD / Omlaing / Omlaing commune / Omlaing sugar plantation / Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development / Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises / PC Law Firm / Phnom Penh Sugar Company / Phnom Penh Sugar director Seng Nhak / Phnom Penh Sugar’s Omlaing plantation / plantation workers / Plantations / preferential trade scheme / protests / Pung Chhiv Kek / razed crops / Rees Broome law firm / Seng Nhak / shootings / subsistence farming / sugar / sugar exports / sugar industry / sugarcane / sugarcane plantations / Taiwan / Tate & Lyle / Tate & Lyle Sugars / Thailand / Thpong district / UK / UK’s High Court of Justice / UN / United Nations / United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights / US / US National Contact Point / Ve Wong Corporation / wages
Satiating the demands of the global sugar industry is big business for Cambodia’s sugarcane plantations. Yet accusations of human rights abuses and land grabs in the Kingdom have left a bitter aftertaste for many on the ground as companies vie for a larger slice of ...
Villagers Make Heady Claims Against NGO
- 10 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Land / Land tenure and land titling
- Cham Yeam Village / Community Bak Khlang / Conservation NGO / Disputed Land / Forestry Administration / Forests / Hun Sen Volunteer Youths / illegal land clearing / Khemarak Pumin District / Koh Kong Province / land mines / Mondul Seima district / NGO / NGO Wildlife Alliance / protected area / protected forest / Wildlife Alliance / Wildlife Alliance country Director Suwanna Gauntlett
Families living in Koh Kong province have called on the provincial governor to intervene in what they claim are ongoing land disputes with Forestry Administration authorities and conservation NGO Wildlife Alliance. Thirty-eight families from Mondul Seima and Khemarak Pumin districts have 110 hectares of land between ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051065550/National/villagers-make-heady-claims-against-ngo.html
New Kompong Thom Governor Vows to Give Land to Evictees
- 10 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Social development / The poor
- Adhoc / Displacement / ELCs / forced evictions / Kompong Thom / Kompong Thom Province / Kompong Thom provincial governor Uth Sam On / relocation site / rubber / rubber plantations / Tan Bien-Kompong Thom Rubber Development Company
The newly appointed Kompong Thom provincial governor on Tuesday promised more than 500 families who were forcefully evicted by a Vietnamese rubber plantation more than three years ago that they would be given replacement land to farm on early next month. Security forces evicted villagers from ...
Private property, public greed in Cambodia
- 9 May 2013
- The Politico
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Exports / Human rights / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Public land lease / Social development / Sugar / Trade
- American Sugar Refining / Cambodia Daily newspaper / Cambodian Center for Human Rights / Cambodian Center for Human Rights president Ou Virak / CCHR / Chinese aid / Chum Bun Rong / Deputy Director Chum Bun Rong / Displacement / Disputed Land / Domino Sugar / ELCs / forced evictions / Khmer Rouge / Koh Kong / Koh Kong Provice / land compensation / Land Law 2001 / Land-grabbing / Laos / Myanmar / National Land Authority / New York / Ou Virak / Phnom Penh / Prime Minister Hun Sen / sugar / sugar cane / Tate & Lyle / Tate & Lyle sugar / Thailand / The State Department annual Human Rights Report / TTY rubber company / United Nations / United States aid / Vietnam War
Mark Moorstein knew little about Cambodia before he got involved in a lawsuit on behalf of land owners there. But as it’s turning out, the suit could end up affecting most every country in Asia. Moorstein is a land-use lawyer in Northern Virginia who, like many ...
Kampong Thom Governor Vows to Give Land to Evictees
- 9 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Rubber
- Adhoc provincial coordinator / economic land concession / ELC / evictee / Kampong Thom / Kompong Thom / Kompong Thom provincial governor / Kraya commune / land eviction / Nhem Sarath / Rubber plantation / Santuk district / Tan Bien-Kompong Thom Rubber Development Company / Uth Sam On / Vietnamese rubber plantation
The newly appointed Kompong Thom provincial governor on Tuesday promised more than 500 families who were forcefully evicted by a Vietnamese rubber plantation more than three years ago that they would be given replacement land to farm on early next month. Security forces evicted villagers from ...
Father Suing Rubber Firm for Beating His Three Children
- 8 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Rubber
- DM Group / DM Group spokesman Ven Vibol / Farmland / land certificate / Land rights / Land titles / Ratanakirri / Ratanakirri province / RCAF / Royal Cambodia Armed Forces / Royal Cambodia Armed Solider Colonel Srey Thoeun / Ry Saron / Ven Vibol
The father of three children attacked with wooden sticks and steel poles by employees of well-connected DM Group in Ratanakkiri province has filed a lawsuit against the firm, and is asking for tens of thousands of dollars in compensation. .. The provincial court has charged the ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/father-suing-rubber-firm-for-beating-his-three-children-22805/
Court Upholds Verdict for Minister's Wife's Firm
- 8 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Energy / Generation and distribution facilities / Land / Land tenure and land titling
- Cambodian Court of Appeal / Chea Kheng / Disputed Land / KCD / KCD company / Kompong Chhang / Kompong Chhang province / Kompong Chhang provincial court / Konmpong Tralach district / Land rights / Minister of Industry Mines and Energy Suy Sem / Ministry of Industry Mines and Energy / Suy Sem / Ta Ches commune
The Court of Appeal yesterday upheld a verdict by Kompong Chhang Provincial Court over a land dispute in Konmpong Tralach district between a 70-year old woman and a company owned by the wife of the Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy over a 3,000-square-meter parcel ...
Old Soldiers Won't Fade Away
- 7 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Rubber
- Adhoc / Adhoc Senior Investigator Chan Soveth / Chan Soveth / Commune Thma Da / conservation zone / economic land concession / ELC / Hun Sen Volunteer Youths / Khmer Rouge Soldiers / Khoy Sokha / MDS / MDS Concession / MDS Import Export Co Ltd / MDS Import-Export Co Ltd Owner Oknha Try Pheap / Protected Forest Zone / Pursat / Pursat Province / Pursat Provincial Governor Khoy Sokha / Royal Government / rubber / rubber company / social land concessions / Thai-Cambodia Border / Thailand / Veal Veng district
“I don’t know how to protect the territorial integrity [of the nearby Cambodian-Thai border] – even my three hectares of land I cannot protect,” said Bun Chanthorn, 54, one of hundreds of retired and active soldiers who since 2010 have been battling the local authorities ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050765451/National/old-soldiers-won-t-fade-away.html