Ethnic Jarai families living in Ratanakkiri province’s Borkeo district have accused a Vietnamese rubber company of digging a channel to drain a lake the indigenous villagers use for fishing and irrigation, a local official and rights worker said yesterday. Rochom Vin, Yeak Som village chief, said ...

Rita O&rsquO; Sullivan, ADB COuntry DirectOr TOurism is a dynamic cOmpOnent in the ecOnOmic sectOr. In the Greater MekOng Sub RegiOn – Thailand, Myanmar, LaOs and CambOdia – bOund tOgether by the MekOng River, the tOurism industry is a driving fOrce, says Rita O&rsquO; Sullivan, ...

Authorities in Battambang province on Saturday summoned two villagers from Salmot district’s Ta Sanh commune after they refused to hand over money to officials asking for donations to feed students working in the area as part of the government’s nationwide land titling project. Heng ...

Three ethnic Jarai minority communities passed a crucial hurdle on the way to obtaining communal land titles in government-sanctioned ceremonies this week. But a human-rights activist tempered the celebration, saying mass deforestation in the province had already stripped most of the land the villagers are ...

Authorities in Ratanakkiri province arrested and charged two men with illegal logging after discovering about 4,000 pieces of luxury wood on an economic land concession held by a Vietnamese rubber company, officials said. [Deputy Provincial Forestry Administration Chief Phan Phoeun] said that although the wood ...

Though they held out hope for years that they would get communal land titles, hundreds of ethnic minority families in Mondolkiri and Ratanakkiri provinces have now opted to accept individual private land titles under Prime Minister Hun Sen’s new titling scheme. While individual titles offer immediate ...

More than 250 ethnic Jarai families living in Ratanakkiri province’s o’Yadaw district filed a complaint with rights group Adhoc yesterday, after local officials demanded that the villagers apply for private land titles to protect their property from two Vietnamese rubber companies currently clearing their land, ...

Less than two months after staffers at a Vietnamese rubber concessionaire were charged over setting homes aflame during a land dispute, the company has been accused of burning and bulldozing more than 900 cashew nut trees and eight hectares of plantation land in o’Chum district, ...

Employees reportedly working for the controversial Company 72 have allegedly been illegally felling timber in a community forest in Ratanakkiri province’s o’Yadav district and shipping it across the Vietnamese border, community members and Adhoc said yesterday. Romas Svat, a community representative in Paknhai commune’s Lom village, ...

The number of visitors arriving by cruise ship in Sihanoukville dropped steeply in the first six months of the year compared to the same period last year, a Tourism Ministry official said yesterday. A lack of attractions in Sihanoukville and high visa fees were keeping ...

An Australia-based firm that announced a plan to explore for gold in Ratanakkiri province insisted Monday that its Cambodian venture is still on track, despite allegations made in an Australian newspaper that it has garnered investment based on false information. Astra Resources, which has companies incorporated ...

Commune authorities in Ratanakkiri province’s o’Yadav district have allegedly banished a local resident for persisting with a lawsuit that accuses them of selling 500 hectares of community forest to two Cambodian developers for $300,000. Romas Svang, who is a member of the ethnic Jarai minority, filed ...

Economic land concessions granted to a pair of Vietnamese companies in Ratanakkiri’s o’Yadav district were endangering the traditional lifestyles of as many as 200 ethnic-minority families, villagerstold the Post yesterday. As the companies actively cleared forest to make room for the eventual rubber plantations, the government ...

Portraits of the late King Father Norodm Sihanouk covered the floor and dozens of coin-sized badges emblazoned with his image were scattered on the sidewalk in front of the Singha Mean printing house yesterday. Kuo Ransiky, the 41-year-old owner of the printshop on Phnom Penh’s street ...

The Vietnamese Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) company, the majority shareholder of several economic land concessions in Ratanakkiri province, on Friday rebuffed accusations that it had logged forests and forced evictions, claiming that its activities improved the environment and the livelihoods of locals. Through several companies, ...

ប្រជា​សហគមន៍ និង​ក្រុម​អ្នក​អភិរក្ស​ធនធានធម្មជាតិ បាន​សម្តែង​ការព្រួយបារម្ភ​ចំពោះ​ការបន្ត​ការ​បរបាញ់ និង​ដាក់​អន្ទាក់​សត្វព្រៃ​នៅក្នុង​ដែនជម្រកសត្វព្រៃ ជាពិសេស​នៅក្នុង​រដូវក្ដៅ​នេះ ពីព្រោះ​សត្វ​កម្រ និង​ជិត​ផុត​ពូជ​ជាច្រើន​ត្រូវបាន​គេ​រកឃើញថា ត្រូវបាន​សម្លាប់ ឬ​រងរបួស​ដោយ​អន្ទាក់​នៅក្នុង​ដែនជម្រកសត្វព្រៃ​។​ ...

The Ministry of Agriculture will ask Prime Minister Hun Sen to cancel a 4,900-hectare economic land concession belonging to a Vietnamese rubber company in Ratanakkiri province on the grounds that the firm has been illegally logging on a large scale, officials said yesterday. According to ...

Officials in Ratanakkiri prOvince are investigating the prOvincial cOOrdinatOr fOr rights grOup AdhOc fOr incitement after he helped villagers Organize a demOnstratiOn, ultimately canceled, against a Vietnamese rubber cOmpany in O&rsquO;Yadaw district. Mr. [Chhay] Thy, [AdhOc&rsquO;s PrOvincial InvestigatOr] said yesterday that he met with abOut ...

Like most millennium-old structures discovered in the forests of Cambodia, the locals had known all along about this one. Jarai minority villagers in this remote spot in Ratanakkiri province’s o’Yadaw district not only knew about it, but they revered the red-brick temple, using it as a ...

Construction of a special economic zone (SEZ) near the Vietnamese border in Ratanakkiri province’s eastern o’Yad­aw district is on track, but who exactly will avail of the facility and its services remains a mystery—even for senior provincial officials. The latest announced venture of agro-industry land concession ...