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Call for Oversight of Cambodian Land Campaign

12 June 2013
Radio Free Asia
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
Brad Adams / communal land / concessions / Corruption / CPP / donor countries / donors / ELCs / evictions / forced evictions / HRW / HRW Asia director Brad Adams / Human Rights Watch / Human Rights Watch Asia director Brad Adams / Hun Sen / indigenous communal land / Indigenous Land Rights / indigenous peoples rights / Kampong Speu / Kampong Speu Province / Koh Kong / Koh Kong Province / land / land demarcation / Land grabs / land ownership / Land rights / Land titles / land-titling program / Mondulseima district / national elections / New York / Phnom Sruoch / Phnom Sruoch district / Prime Minister Hun Sen / RCAF / Royal Cambodian Armed Forces / student volunteers / Surya Subedi / Thporng district / transparency / UN / UN’s special rapporteur on human rights Surya Subedi / United Nations / violent evictions / World Bank

A land titling campaign in Cambodia launched and financed by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s lacks transparency and could leave thousands of people landless, a human rights group said Wednesday, urging the country’s donors to push for reform of the program. The campaign, which employs volunteer youth ...

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/land-06122013150317.html

Cambodia focuses on its fragrant rice

4 April 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Exports / Rice / Trade
Alliance of Rice Producers and Exports of Cambodia / Bali / Chinese aid / David Van / FCRE / Federation of Cambodian Rice Exporters / fragrant rice / France / Golden Rice Cambodia / Indian aid / Indonesia / jasmine rice / Kampong Speu Province / Khmer Food / Kim Savuth / Malaysian aid / One Window Service / phkarmalis / Phnom Sruoch / Phnom Sruoch district / Poland / Rice Trader World Rice Conference / Secretariat of One Window Service for Rice Export / Sok David / Thailand

Prior to 2013, Dom Dorn, a farmer in Phnom Sruoch district of Kampong Speu province, used oxen to farm his white-rice paddies; now, after just his second harvest of sowing phkarmalis (also known as jasmine or fragrant rice), he is using a kor yun, or ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013040464877/Business/cambodia-focuses-on-its-fragrant-rice.html

Free mother, protesters urge

27 January 2012
The Phnom Penh Post
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Civil society / Concessions / Economic land concessions and plantations / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
Adhoc / Chum Srey Noun / crops / Disputed Land / Farmland / imprisoned / Kampong Speu / Land dispute / land tenure / Phnom Sruoch / Protest / Treng Trayoeng

More than 300 villagers from two districts in Kampong Speu province joined forces yesterday to protest in front of the provincial court over two land disputes, vowing to continue until authorities resolved them and released a mother of seven jailed last month after she had ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012012754191/National-news/free-mother-protesters-urge.html

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