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City Gives Lakeside Land Detail
- 23 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Land
- Boeung Kak Lake / Cambodia / Cambodian Government / Chhay Rithysen / Chinese aid / city officials / deputy director-general or Shukaku Inc / Development / district authorities / Erdos Hong Jun Investment Company / evictions / Kep Chuktema / land / Land titles / Lao Vann / municipal authorities / Municipal Department of Urbanization and Construction / Municipal Hall / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh Governor / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Private Companies / Senator Lao Meng hin / Shukaku Inc / Sra Chak Commune / Tep Vanny / Village 1 / villagers / World Bank
City officials said yesterday that an offer of land to people living near Boeung Kak lake would not force residents to relocate, following concerns about how the city would implement Prime Minister Hun Sen’s order. Villagers won 12.44 hectares of land for on-site housing at the ...
City Accepts Boeng Kak Land Title Applications
- 23 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Land
- Boeng Kak Lake residents / Chea Srun / Chhay Thirith / community representatives / construction / Department of Land Management / eviction / Housing Rights Task Force / land / Land titles / municipal officials / new road / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh City Hall / Shukaku / Shukaku development / Sia Phearum / Sra Chak Commune
Municipal officials began accepting applications for land titles from Boeng Kak lake residents yesterday, but the exact location of the 12.44 hectares granted to the residents remains unclear, community respresentatives said yesterday. Boenk Kak community representatives met with Srah Chak commune chief Chhay Thirith and ...
Villagers Complain as Land is Razed in Oddor Meanchey
- 23 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Land
- Anlong Veng District / Brigade 41 / Brigadier General / bulldozers / contested farmland / Farmland / FCAF’s Region 4 / formal complaint / land / Nuon Nov / Oddor Meanchey / Pich Sokhin / RCAF soldiers / unknown company / Veng Phan / village representatives / villagers / Yim Phanna
A fleet of bulldozers owned by an unknown company and accompanied by armed RCAF soldiers began razing some 300 hectares of contested farmland in Oddor Meanchey’s Anlong Veng district yesterday, village representatives said. “There were four soldiers with RCAF uniforms and AK-47s and every bulldozer ...
Land Titles Needed to Drive Investment in Agriculture
- 15 August 2011
- Economics Today
- Agriculture and fishing / Economy and commerce
- Agriculture Scetor / ASEAN / Banks / Cambodian Capital Securities Co. Ltd. / Cambodian Economy / Cambodian Ministry of Economy and Finance / Farmers / Fertilizer / GDP / International Monetary Fund / Irrigation Systems / land / Land titles / Morten Kvammen / National Bank of Cambodia
The issue of using land titles to encourage banks to boost their lending to the agriculture sector was raised at the “Empower Your Business: Riding on Cambodia’s Growth” seminar in Phnom Penh on July 21. “Seventy percent of the population is undertaking agriculture as their ...
Protected forest ‘is finished’
- 11 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / National parks and wildlife sanctuaries / Protected forest
- agro-industrial development / agro-industry / An Mady Group Co Ltd / Boeung Per / Boeung Per Wildlife Sanctuary / business / Chhut Vuthy / Chhut Vuthy Director of the Natural Resources Protection Group / concession land / concessions / Development / Director of the Natural Resources Protection Group / Director of the Natural Resources Protection Group Chhut Vuthy / fishing cat / Forest / Government / government-backed appropriation / government-backed appropriations / Hun Sen / Kampong Thom / Kampong Thom Province / Kompong Thom / Kompong Thom Province / Kui / Kui ethnic minority / Kulen Promtep / Kulen Promtep Wildlife Sanctuary / land / Land concessions / Lim Heng / Mekong Rubber Co / Ministry of Environment / Ministry of Environment Secretary of State Thuk Kroeun Vutha / muntjac deer / natural resources / Natural Resources Protection Group / Okhna An Mady / Plantations / Preah Vihear / Preah Vihear Community Network for Action / Preah Vihear Province / Preah Vihear’s Rovieng district / prime minister / private land / Protected land / reclassified / resin / resin trees / resources / Romny / Romny commune / Romny commune of Preah Vihear’s Rovieng district / Rovieng / Rovieng District / Royal Decree / rubber / rubber plantations / Secretary of State at the Ministry of Environment Thuk Kroeun Vutha / Sovanpaum Co / threatened species / Thuk Kroeun Vutha / Thuk Kroeun Vutha Secretary of State at the Ministry of Environment / timber / trees / Try Pheap Import Export Co Ltd / Wildlife Sanctuary
In the latest government backed appropriation of protected land, nearly 20,000 hectares of the Boeung Per wildlife sanctuary have been reclassified as state private land for agro-industrial development. Two sub-decrees, obtained by The Post this week and initialed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on July ...
World Bank fund halt irks officials
- 10 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Aid and development / Economy and commerce / Multilateral development assistance / World Bank
- aid / aid agencies / aid contributor / aid contributors / alumina mine / Annette Dixon / Annette Dixon World Bank Country Director / bank / Boeung Kak Lake / Boeung Kak lake development / Boeung Kak Lake residents / Cambodia / Cambodian Government / cheap loans / Chinese aid / Chinese embassy / Chinese governmental documents / City Hall records / Contracts / Council of Ministers / Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan / country loans / Development / Embassy of Japan / Erdos / Erdos Hong Jun / Erdos Hong Jun Investment / Erdos Hong Jun Investment Company / funds / Government / Government officials / Governor Kep Chuktema / Housing / housing development / Human Rights / human rights abuses / Human Rights Task Force / Human Rights Taskforce secretariat Sia Phearum / human rights violations / Japanese aid / Japanese Ambassador / Japanese Ambassador Masafumi Kuroki / Japanese Embassy / Kep Chuktema / lakeside residents / land / Land dispute / land disputes / Lao Meng Khin / Lending / loans / local government officials / Masafumi Kuroki / Masafumi Kuroki the Japanese Ambassador / Mondulkiri / Mondulkiri Province / Phay Siphan / Phay Siphan Council of Ministers spokesman / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh municipal Government / Relocation / residents of Boeung Kak lake / rights froups / Senator Lao Meng Khin / Shukaku Inc / Sia Phearum / Sia Phearum secretariat of the Human Rights Task Force / Sihanoukville / suspension of funds / Tep Vanny / UN / United Nations / World Bank / World Bank central management and executive board / World Bank Country Director / World Bank Country Director Annette Dixon
THE government expressed disappointment yesterday with the World Bank’s announcement that it had halted new country loans due to the ongoing land dispute at Boeung Kak lake in Phnom Penh and vowed to raise the issue with the bank’s executive board. “We are very dissatisfied ...
Adhoc Calls for Stronger Indigenous Land Rights
- 10 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Human rights / Social development
- Adhoc / Adhoc Techincal Assistant Orla Kelly / Agro-Business / agro-business concessions / Beng Hong Socheat Khemro / Beng Hong Socheat Khemro spokesman for the Ministry of Land Management / business / collective land titles / Collective Titling / Concession / Forest / Forests / Government / Human Rights group / Indigenous Communities / Indigenous Land Rights / Indigenous Pople / International Indigenous People's Day / land / Land concessions / Land Law / Land rights / law / Law on Forestry / Laws / Legislation / Ministry of Land Management / Ministry of Land Management spokesman Beng Hong Socheat Khemro / minority groups / Native Territories / Orla Kelly / Orla Kelly Techincal Assistant for Adhoc / Protected Areas Law / state land
The government must correctly implement the Land Law and allow indigenous people greater access to collective titling of their native territories, human rights group Adhoc said yesterday in a statement. Although there is a provision in the Land Law allowing indigenous groups to obtain collective ...
Villagers Face Hefty Court Fees in Land Dispute
- 10 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Human rights / Judiciary and courts / Social development
- Adhoc / Adhoc chief monitor Chan Soveth / Cambodia / Chan Soveth / Chan Soveth chief monitor ofr Adhoc / Chea Kheng / Chea Kheng owner KDC Development / Chea Kheng wife of Suy Sem / court / court fees / Disputed Land / district authorities / farming / Fees / Human Rights / human rights worker / Kampong Chhnang / Kampong Chhnang Provincial Court / KDC Development / KDC Development owner Chea Kheng / Kompong Chhnang / Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court / land / Land dispute / Lor Peang / Lor Peang village / Minister of Industry / Minister of Industry Suy Sem / Poverty Classification Card / Provincial Court / Sous Sipay Ta Ches Commune Chief / Suos Sipay / Suy Sem / Suy Sem Minister of Industry / Ta Ches / Ta Ches commune / Ta Ches Commune's Lor Peang Villag / villagers
Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court has ordered 40 families embroiled in a long-running land dispute with the wife of Minister of Industry Suy Sem to pay court fees of up to $155 each, or have their complaints dropped. The villagers, however, say they are too poor ...
Property Tax to Generate $6M for Phnom Penh
- 10 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Phnom Penh
- agriculutral land / annual tax / Cambodia / City Hall Officials / commune officials / DFDL / DFDL managing director Edwin Vanderbruggen / district officials / Edwin Vanderbruggen / Edwin Vanderbruggen managing director of DFDL / exemptions / foreign embassies / Government / land / leased property / local officials / Managing Director of DFDL / municipality / National Values Association of Cambodia / NGOs / officials / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh City Hall / Property / Property Registration / Property tax / Property Tax Initiative / property tax law / property value / revenue / state property / Sung Bonna / Sung Bonna president of the National Values Association of Cambodia / tax / tax department / tax registration
Phnom Penh City Hall has estimated it could receive about $6 million in revenue next year from property tax collection, which started recently. City Hall released some tax calculation methods on its website last week and said that “based on the estimation of the technical ...
Defiance Greets World Bank's Funding Freeze
- 10 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Aid and development / Economy and commerce / Multilateral development assistance / World Bank
- Annette Dixon / Annette Dixon World Bank Country Director / bank / Boeng Kak / Boeng Kak Lake / Boeng Kak Lake Area / Boeng Kak Lake residents / Boeng Kak land case / Cambodia / Cheam Yeap / Cheam Yeap chairman of the National Assembly's Commission on Economy / Chinese aid / Council of Ministers / Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan / country funding / CPP / CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap / Development / donor / donors / Erdeos Hong Jun Investment Co / Erdos Hong Jun Investment / EU / European Union aid / evictions / finance / Finance Ministry / foreign investment board / foreign investor / foreign investors / Funding / funding freeze / Government / Government officials / Housing / Housing Rights Groups / Hun Sen / International Committees / Japanese aid / Korea / land / land titling / Lending / lending conditions / misappropriated money / Money / National Assembly / National Assembly's Commission on Economy / Phay Siphan / Phay Siphan Council of Ministers spokesman / Phnom Penh / prime minister / proposed projects / Real estate / real estate project / Union / World Bank / World Bank Country Director / World Bank Country Director Annette Dixon / WorldBank-supported projects
Government officials yesterday dismissed the World Bank’s recently revealed decision to freeze funding for new projects in Cambodia to protest a Phnom Penh real estate project that has forced thousand of families out of their homes. A housing rights group closely following the evictions said ...
Villagers protest at governor’s home
- 9 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agriculture and fishing
- Disputed Land / evictions / governor / Governor Hun Neng / Kampong Cham / Kampong Cham Province / Kampong Cham's Memot district / Kompong Cham / Kompong Cham Province / Kompong Cham's Memot district / land / Land dispute / Land Law / Memot Rubber Plantation / Memot's Tramoung Commune / Protest / Tramoung commune / villagers
Representatives of 168 families from Kampong Cham’s Memot district staged a protest at the provincial governor’s home yesterday, seeking an intervention on their behalf in an ongoing land dispute with Memot Rubber Plantation. ...
Farmers get permission to cultivate
- 9 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agriculture and fishing
- Battambang / Battambang Province / Battambang Province's Samlot District / crops / Disputed Land / district officials / Farmers / Hen Sophan / Kampong Lpov / Kampong Lpov commune / Kompong Lpov / Kompong Lpov commune / land / land disputes / Military / military official / RCAF / RCAF's Military Region 5 / Royal Cambodian Armed Forces / Samlot / Samlot District / soldiers / Tuy Bun Ly / Tuy Bun Ly deputy commander of RCAF's Military Region 5 / villagers
Farmers who on Sunday said they had been shot at by Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) soldiers for trying to cultivate 390 hectares of disputed land in Battambang province’s Samlot district were granted permission yesterday to plant on some parts of the land, villagers and ...
Forest on the auction block
- 9 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agriculture and fishing / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / National parks and wildlife sanctuaries / Protected forest / Siem Reap
- Adhoc / Adhoc head of land programme Ouch Leng / agricultural development / Agriculture & Agri-business / Anlong Veng / Anlong Veng District / businessmen / Chut Wutty / Chut Wutty director of the Natural Resource Protection Group / compensation / concessions / developing agriculture / Development / diverse species / environment / environmental impact / environmental impact assessments / Forest / forest areas / Government / Hun Sen / illegal loging / Illegal poaching / Kulen Promptep / Kulen Promptep Sanctuary / land / Land concessions / law / leases / logging / Ministry of Environment / Ministry of Environment secretary of state Thuk Kreun Vutha / National Park / Natural Resource Protection Group / Natural Resource Protection Group director Chut Wutty / NGOs / Oddar Meanchey / Oddar Meanchey Province / Oddar Meanchey's Anlong Veng District / Ouch Leng / Ouch Leng head of the land programme at Adhoc / Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary / poaching / Preah Vihear / Preah Vihear Province / prime minister / Private Companies / private firms / reclassified / Siem Reap / Siem Reap Province / state / state private land / Thuk Kreun Vutha / Thuk Kreun Vutha secretary of state at the Ministry of Environment / token crops / villagers / wildlife / Wildlife Sanctuary
Almost 30,000 hectares of a wildlife sanctuary in Oddar Meanchey, Siem Reap and Preah Vihear provinces have been reclassified as state private land for agricultural development, drawing sharp criticism from rights groups. Four sub-decrees signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on July 22 reclassify land ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011080950943/National-news/forest-on-the-auction-block.html
World Bank Halts Funds Over Evictions
- 9 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Aid and development / Economy and commerce / Multilateral development assistance / World Bank
- aid / Annette Dixon / Annette Dixon World Bank Country Director / Boeng Kak Lake / Boeng Kak Lake residents / Cambodia / Chinese / Council of Ministers / CPP / CPP Senator Lao Meng Khin / EC / Erdos Hong Jun Investment / European Commission / eviction / evictions / forced evictions / Funding / funds / Government / Government officials / Housing Rights Groups / Independent Report / land / Land Law / land sector / Land titles / land titling / Lao Meng Khin / legal obligations / Lending / loan / on-site housing / Phay Siphan / Phay Siphan Council of Ministers spokesman / Phnom Penh / Rafael Dochao Moreno / Real estate / Resettlement / Senator Lao Meng Khin / Shukaku Inc / Washington / World Bank
The World Bank has frozen funding to Cambodia, making good on its threat in March to reconsider aid levels to Cambodia in response to the ongoing eviction of thousands of Phnom Penh families from Boeng Kak lake, a Bank official confirmed yesterdaySome 3,000 families have ...
World Bank stops funds for Cambodia over evictions
- 9 August 2011
- Reuters
- Aid and development / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Multilateral development assistance / Phnom Penh / World Bank
- agricultural projects / Agriculture & Agri-business / aid / Annette Dixon / Annette Dixon World Bank Country Director / bank / Beijing / Boeung Kak Lake / Boeung Kak Lake Area / Cambodia / Cambodian tycoons / central government / Chinese aid / developer / development money / developments / documents / donor countries / eviction / evictions / Farmland / FDI / financing / firm / forced eviction / forced evictions / foreign aid / foreign direct investment / foreign firms / Government / Housing / human rights groups / Inner Mongolia Erdos Hongjun Investment Corp / Khmer Rouge / lake / land / land management / land ownership / legal documents / Lending / loan / loans / local government / metal processing / mining / Mining projects / on-site housing / Phnom Penh / Power Generation / prime real estate / Real estate / real estate developments / residents of Boeung Kak lake / Southeast Asia / urban areas / World Bank / World Bank Country Director Annette Dixon
The World Bank said on Tuesday it had stopped providing loans to Cambodia and would not resume lending until the government did something to help hundreds of families facing eviction from land around a lake in the country’s capital, Phnom Penh. “The World Bank’s last ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/09/cambodia-worldbank-idUSL3E7J920D20110809
Residents tell tycoon to back off
- 4 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce
- Cabinet / compensation / Families / Fences / Hun Sen / land / Phang Hour Seng / Phnom Penh / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Suos Sarin / Thong Sarath / Tycoon
Families protesting encroachment onto their land by a tycoon who is expanding a road in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district filed a complaint to the Prime Minister’s cabinet and the Municipal Court on Tuesday. On Friday, employees working for tycoon Thong Sarath demolished fences on eight ...
Tax-Free Trade Access Will Stay, Says EU
- 2 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / European Union aid / Human rights / Social development / Sugar
- Cambodia / Cecilia Wikstrom / Duty-Free / EBA / EU / European Commission / European Union aid / Everything But Arms program / Heng San / Human Rights / Koh Kong Province / Kompong Speu Province / land / Land evictions / Ly Yong Phat / Mao Thora / Ministry of Commerce / Oddor Meanchey Province / Rafael Dochao Moreno / Sugar Companies / Trade benefits
The European Union has said that it has no plans to suspend Cambodia’s duty-free trade access even though there have been concerns over land evictions as a result of economic land concessions. The EU is seeking that human rights are not the cost of trade ...
Company Illegally Cleared Land, Villagers Say
- 13 July 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agriculture and fishing
- Banteay Meanchey / farming / land / rice / So Chanthou / So Chanthou Company
So Chanthou Company has been accused of illegally clearing 290 hectares and removing 84 families in Banteay Meanchey province. The families who are predominately rice farmers are said to have been on the land since 1996 and have complained about So Chanthou Company to the ...
Premier Approves Four More Land Concessions in Mondolkiri
Prime Minister Hun Sen has granted for more land concessions in Mondolkiri province. The concessions total more than 38,057 hectares. Pacific Lotus Joint stock received 9,014 hectares; Pacific Pearl Joint Stock received 9.614 hectares; Pacific Grand Joint Stock received 9,656 hectares and Pacific Pride Joint ...
1,000 hectare land grab alleged
- 5 July 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agriculture and fishing
- Ban Sarom / Businessman / Cheam Pen / Jackfruit Trees / land / Pin Lean Hun / Preah Sihanouk Province / rice paddies / Vegetable Pataches / villagers
Villagers in Preah Sihanouk province have accused a businessman of bulldozing almost 1,000 hectares of their farm land in complaints filed to relevant authorities and the provincial court last week. Pin Lean Hun, a village representative, said yesterday rice paddies, vegetable patches and jackfruit trees ...