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Banong Families Receive Communal Land Tiles
- 12 March 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Land / Social development
- ancestral land / Banong ethnic minority / Cambodia Land Law 2001 / Chhun Lim / communal land titles / Community Legal Education Center / Farmland / Hun Sen / indigenous ethnic communities / indigenous land / Indigenous Rights / Kati village / Keo Seima district / Land Law 2001 / Land Management Minister Chhun Lim / Land titles / Ministry of Land Management / mondolkiri / Mondolkiri Province / Mondulkiri / Mondulkiri Province / O'Chra villages / Prime Minister Hun Sen / residential land / rubber planation / spirit forests
Seventy-two ethnic minorities Banong families received communal titles to a combined 1,008 hectares of ancestral land in Mondolkiri province yesterday morning in a ceremony attended by Land Management Minister Chhun Lim. Communal titles were designed to protect the ancestral lands of the country’s minorities from outside ...
Land Is Life, and It’s Slipping Away
- 14 February 2013
- IPS News Agency
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Concessions / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Foreign investors / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Government / Industries / Investment / Land / Land policy and administration / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Rivers and lakes / Sugar / Tourism / Water resources
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Nean Narin, a humble man and father of three children, says his family is going hungry. Narin lives in the village of Boeung Kak, situated on the edge of Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh. For years, he and other villagers relied on the Boeung Kak Lake ...
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