Four Preah Vihear villagers filed a complaint with rights group Adhoc yesterday, requesting help in gaining permission to farm 93 hectares of land the Provincial Forestry Administration barred them from last year. The four complainants represent 65 families who have farmed the area in Kolen district ...

អ្នកស្រុកប្រមាណ ១៥០នាក់ មកពីស្រុកឱរ៉ាល់ ខេត្តកំពង់ស្ពឺបានមកប្រមូលផ្តុំគ្នានៅទីស្នាក់ការកណ្តាលអង្គការសមភាពកម្ពុជា និងនៅរដ្ឋសភាជាតិកាលពីថ្ងៃសុក្រ ដើម្បីដកពាក្យបណ្តឹងរបស់ពួកគេលើបញ្ហាដីធ្លីជាមួយក្រុមហ៊ុនផលិតស្ករភ្នំពេញ ដែលជាក្រុមហ៊ុនរបស់លោកឧកញ៉ា លី យ៉ុងផាត់។ ...

Provincial forestry administration officials in Ratanakkiri have dismissed allegations of illegal logging by community residents and chalked the deforestation up to legitimate clearing. A cursory examination of the land in question yesterday seemed to back the company’s claims, Ly Sophan, a team worker at the provincial ...

Representatives of 171 Pursat families who claim to have been unfairly left out of the government’s land-titling process said they have reached a tentative agreement with the minister of Industry, Mines and Energy to continue farming on the Bakan district land they have occupied for ...

The Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court questioned four villagers among 12 summoned for questioning over a land dispute in Samakki Meanchey district, which has pitted some 80 local families against the owner of a private company they accuse of taking their land. While the dispute stems from alleged land grabbing, ...

If the government continues to grant economic land and mining concessions at the current rate, there will be no more arable land left in the country to give away within one year, a researcher from the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights said yesterday. Pointing to the ...

Residents of an ethnic minority village in Mondolkiri’s Seima Protected Forest on Monday became the first community in the province to receive a communal land title, land management officials said yesterday. About 500 indigenous Bunong families from Andoung Kraloeng village in O’Reang district’s Sen Monorom commune ...

ប្រជាពលរដ្ឋប្រមាណ ៥០នាក់ តំណាងឲ្យ ១៧០គ្រួសារ នៅសង្កាត់សំរោងក្រោម និងសង្កាត់កាកាប ខណ្ឌពោធិ៍សែនជ័យ កាលពីថ្ងៃម្សិលមិញ បានទៅប្រមូលផ្តុំជាថ្មីនៅក្រសួងរៀបចំដែនដី នគរូបនីយកម្ម និងសំណង់ ដើម្បីស្នើសុំដីធ្លីលក្ខណៈជាប្រព័ន្ធ និងផ្តល់ប័ណ្ណកម្មសិទ្ធិកាន់កាប់ដីធ្លីដល់ពួកគាត់ ព្រោះបារម្ភពីការបាត់បង់ដីធ្លី ខណៈដែលក្រុមហ៊ុន Royal Railway ដែលបានទទួលសិទ្ធិលើការវិនិយោគផ្លូវដែក បានបោះបង្គោល និងផ្ទាំងប៉ាណូពីគម្រោងអភិវឌ្ឍនលើដីរបស់ពួកគាត់។ ...

Approximately 400 people from 10 villages in Kandal province’s Ang Snuol district stopped a truck on Monday that had been hired to fill in a pond in preparation for the reported building of a military police base, officials said. Thuon Nging, a representative of the ...

Authorities in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district continued to demolish houses in Niroth commune yesterday, despite 46 families appealing to the municipality and Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cabinet to intervene. On Tuesday, three houses were torn down as part of efforts to clean up a stretch of ...

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 ...

Two ethnic Banong communities in Mondolkiri province’s Keo Seima district have completed the final stage in the process to receive rare collective property titles, and are set to receive ownership documents early next month, an official at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) said. Kan Vibol, ...

Hundreds of indigenous minorities in Ratanakkiri province are being made worse off by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s land-titling scheme which, rather than securing their property rights, is contributing to the loss of their ancestral lands, according to a new report. The report supports complaints aired since ...

Free of the police resistance that thwarted their march the previous day, about 65 Borei Keila and Boeung Kak community supporters marched to the Ministry of Justice yesterday in another effort to have land dispute activists Tim Sakmony and Yorm Bopha freed from pre-trial detention ...

An international rights group yesterday said the situation of human rights in Cambodia was continuing to worsen and accused the government of being “at war” with its own citizens over access to land. In its briefing paper, the Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) also said that Cambodia was ...

Journalists, NGO workers and politicians are not immune to the long arm of the law if they flout it, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday as he distributed land titles in Kampot province. Mr. Hun Sen’s comments come 10 days after independent radio station owner Mam ...

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.  ...

Outspoken land activist Kuch Veng will regain his freedom in 15 days after the Pursat provincial court yesterday handed down a guilty verdict with a one-year sentence, then suspended nearly three quarters of that term. Veng has been in prison since May 19 on charges of ...

About 200 farmers protested in front of the Ministry of Agriculture on Friday and submitted a petition requesting changes to a draft law on the management of agricultural land, which rights groups have said could effectively legalize land grabs from poor farmers. The government says the ...

Fifteen villagers representing 18 families from Kratie province involved in an ongoing dispute with the Sovan Vuthy Rubber Company yesterday submitted a petition to the Ministry of Land Management calling for intervention after the company allegedly cleared their farmLand. The families say they have lived ...