Land
The National Authority for Land Dispute Resolution gets new president
The Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, Chea Sophara, and a senior MP, Khun Haing, have been appointed NALDR president and deputy, respectively, following an order signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on December 13 and announced on Thursday. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/national-authority-land-dispute-resolution-gets-new-president
Mondulkiri Bunong families seek government intervention
Fourteen indigenous families from Mondulkiri province’s Dak Dam commune have sought urgent intervention from local authorities and a human rights NGO after machinery was used to clear their farmland. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mondulkiri-bunong-families-seek-government-intervention
Activists have charges dropped
Phnom Penh Municipal Court dropped the charges against three land activists on December 14, rejecting the accusations of extortion and property damage brought against the trio by the owner of a development company. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activists-have-charges-dropped
CMAC ups cooperation with Thai counterpart
Cambodian and Thai mine authorities have agreed to step up cooperation in demining activities along the two countries’ frontier, the former’s top official said on Thursday. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-ups-cooperation-thai-counterpart
Siem Reap landmine museum to reopen after weapons seizure
It was announced on Sunday that the Cambodian Landmine Museum near Siem Reap will soon reopen to tourists, ending three months of closure following the arrest of its staff for alleged illegal gun procession. The museum’s international project manager Bill Morse wrote in a Facebook ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/siem-reap-landmine-museum-reopen-after-weapons-seizure
CMAC cleared over 30,000 land mines in first 10 months
The Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) cleared more than 30,000 land mines from 75sq km in the first 10 months of this year, the organisation’s director-general said on Monday. Heng Ratana, speaking at a CMAC meeting, said the organisation aims to clear a further 116sq ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-cleared-over-30000-land-mines-first-10-months
Kandal residents in land dispute accept compensation
Kandal provincial authorities and six unnamed companies in Kandal Stung district are handing out money to thousands of families locked in a 400-hectare land dispute in a bid to quell protests. Those who accept the money must relinquish their claim and cease from gathering in public ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50552886/kandal-residents-in-land-dispute-accept-compensation/
Son of PM appointed as CMAC’s board member
Hun Manith, the son of Prime Minister Hun Sen, has been “promoted” as a board member and adviser of the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) – a position equal to a cabinet minister. A royal decree, signed by the King on November 2 and obtained ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/son-pm-appointed-cmacs-board-member
Japan provides grant for demining
CMAC director-general Heng Ratana told The Post on Sunday that Japan has offered $3,536,680 for mine clearance throughout the Kingdom and another $300,000 for CMAC operations in Battambang province, which also involves supporting mine victims for 12 months starting from January 1 to December 31. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/japan-provides-grant-demining
Landmine experts hold talks
Around 100 national and international landmine experts gathered in Siem Reap this week for the Asean Regional Mine Action Center’s (Armac) inaugural regional workshop. Diverse topics were discussed, including new and innovative clearance techniques and strategies to enhance the assistance provided to survivors of explosive ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/landmine-experts-hold-talks
Land protesters vow capital return
Representatives of about 400 families locked in a 670-hectare land dispute with NK Venture in Svay Rieng province’s Romeas Haek district have warned that protestors will return to Phnom Penh if negotiations with local authorities fail to yield results. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50549892/land-protesters-vow-capital-return/
Experts call for women’s part in demining activity
Demining experts on Monday encouraged women to work in defusing unexploded ordnance to reduce the number of explosive remnants of war in Cambodia and some Asean countries. The statement was made at a regional workshop aimed to “enhance mine action knowledge” held from November 12 ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/experts-call-womens-part-demining-activity
Preah Vihear villagers summoned to court for ‘detaining’ bulldozer
An investigative judge at the Preah Vihear provincial court warned that he would issue arrest warrants for two NGO staff and about 10 Kuoy indigenous villagers in relation to a land dispute with two companies if they failed to appear in court on Wednesday. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-villagers-summoned-court-detaining-bulldozer
Villagers denied Kirirom land titles
Kampong Speu provincial governor Vei Samnang rejected villagers’ request on Sunday for 250ha of land within the Kirirom National Park in Phnom Sruoch district on grounds that the park has been designated a protected area by a royal decree. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-denied-kirirom-land-titles
Land activists seek solutions
More than 700 land activists from the capital, Preah Sihanouk, Svay Rieng, Tbong Khmum, Preah Vihear and Kandal provinces gathered on Tuesday at Freedom Park in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district to deliver petitions seeking solutions to their longstanding land disputes. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-activists-seek-solutions
Forestry, wildlife crimes drop at Koh Kong sanctuary
Koh Kong provincial authorities said on Sunday that illegal forestry and wildlife trafficking crimes have decreased considerably at the Peam Krasop Wildlife Sanctuary, although authorities are still investigating cases of encroachment on state land at the site. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forestry-wildlife-crimes-drop-koh-kong-sanctuary
Land in capital reclassified
The government has reclassified 35 hectares of state land in Phnom Penh as state-private land to be developed by a private company, a sub-decree seen by Khmer Times showed yesterday. In accordance with the sub-decree, signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen in September, the government converted ...
Ven Rathavong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50546775/land-in-capital-reclassified/
ANZ mulling payout to sugar project victims
The victims of Ly Yong Phat’s Phnom Penh Sugar Company development project in Kampong Speu province’s Oral district said they are “happy” to hear that ANZ Bank had declared to the Australian Parliamentary Committee that it would consider compensating those affected by the project. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anz-mulling-payout-sugar-project-victims
Activists claim Chinese investment fueling land disputes in Cambodia
Cambodian land rights activists have accused Chinese investors of fueling land disputes through unscrupulous land acquisition and development. The advocates made the comments during a two-day meeting in Phnom Penh earlier this month. ...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/activists-claim-chinese-investment-fueling-land-disputes-in-cambodia/4637185.html
‘At a loss’ over land clearance
The authorities are at a loss over who had cleared and demarcated more than 50ha of mangrove forests in Village I, Tumnob Rolok commune, Stung Hav district, in Preah Sihanouk province. Kim Hak, who heads the community protecting the flooded Tumnob Rolok forest and the ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/loss-over-land-clearance
Preah Sihanouk authorities to bulldoze illegal jetty
The Preah Sihanouk provincial authorities will demolish an illegal jetty being constructed along the Sihanoukville coastline in commune 1 after the owner refused an order to dismantle it. Preah Sihanouk provincial hall spokesperson Or Saroeun told The Post on Tuesday that the authorities previously issued ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-sihanouk-authorities-bulldoze-illegal-jetty
Villagers told not to claim land
Officials of the Kampong Speu provincial environment department have stopped some 300 members of the ethnic Suoy minority from building demarcation posts on a 15ha plot in Oral district. They said the land is located within the protected Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary and are probing ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-told-not-claim-land
Kratie land disputes to be ‘resolved by experts’
The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction on Wednesday ordered 19 experts to identify the families locked in a land dispute in Snuol district, in Kratie province, and find solutions for them through economic land concessions. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kratie-land-disputes-be-resolved-experts
UK pledges $9 million for demining
The United Kingdom will provide more than $9 million in aid from this year to 2020 for demining operations to clear unexploded ordnance in Cambodia, UK Ambassador to Cambodia Tina Redshaw said on Wednesday. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50544210/uk-pledges-9-million-for-demining/