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Ethnic Bunong villagers living in Mondolkiri province’s Pech Chreada district have sent a petition to the Ministry of Land Management, urging the government to refrain from issuing them private land titles, local officials said yesterday. This way they may instead to eligible for a communal title ...

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 ...

Ethnic minority Jarai families in Ratanakkiri province locked in a land dispute with Keat Kolney, the sister of Finance Minister Keat Chhon, yesterday marked the sixth anniversary of inaction in the court compliant they filed accusing Ms. Kolney’s firm of taking 450 hectares of their ...

កាលពី​ម្សិលមិញ​ ក្រុម​អភិរក្ស​មួយ​ក្រុម​ បាន​ទាមទារ​អោយ​មានការ​កែប្រែ​លើ​ចំនុច​មួយ​ចំនួន​ក្នុង​អនុក្រឹត្យ​ ដែល​ចង់​កែប្រែ​ព្រៃ​ឡង់​ទៅ​ជា​តំបន់​ការពារ​ ដោយសារ​ពួក​គាត់​បារម្ភ​ថា​ វា​នឹង​អាច​គំរាមកំហែង​ជា​ជាង​ការ​ការពារ​ព្រៃ​។​ ...

One hot day in June, 2009, Ven Samin, a member of the ethnic Suoy minority in Kampong Speu province, grabbed her digital camera and headed out of the house. The 44-year-old arrived at a collection of damaged rice paddies in Oral district and began taking photos. ...

យោង​តាម​មន្ត្រី​ជំនាញ​បានឱ្យ​ដឹង​ថា​ ក្រោយ​ពី​មាន​កិច្ច​សហប្រតិបត្តិការ​ចុះ​ស៊ើបអង្កេត​រវាង​ប៉ូ​លី​ស​ និង​ទាហាន​កាលពី​ស​ប្ដា​ហ៍​មុន​មក​ មន្ត្រី​រដ្ឋបាល​ព្រៃឈើ​បាន​រក​ឃើញ​ភស្តុ​តាង​នៃ​ការ​កាប់​ព្រៃឈើ​ខុសច្បាប់​ខ្នាត​ធំ​ ដោយ​មាន​ម្ចាស់​ជា ...

First, agricultural company DM group displaced them, now a recently arrived commercial farmer has threatened their lives and chased them off their new land, said representatives of 12 families engaged in a long-standing land dispute in Ratanakkiri province. On Wednesday, the 12 Tampuon ethnic minority families ...

A Vietnamese rubber company in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadaw district yesterday agreed to pay $4,000 in compensation to an ethnic Jarai community whose traditional graveyard was bulldozed by the firm last week, local officials said. During a meeting at the Paknhai commune police station, representatives of the ...

រយៈពេល​ជាង​មួយ​ខែ​ បន្ទាប់​ពី​មានការ​រាំងស្ទះ​នៃ​ជំ​លោះ​ដី​សម្បទាន​ក្នុង​ខេត្តរតនៈគិរី​ ក្រុមហ៊ុន​វៀតណាម​មួយ​បាន​រាយការណ៍​ថា​បាន​ធ្វើ​សកម្មភាព​បន្ត​ និង​ប្រគល់​ដី​ព្រៃ​ដែល​សឹក​រិចរឹល​ចំនួន​ ៣០​ ហិ​កតា​ ទៅ​អោយ​ប្រជាជន​វិ​ញុ​ នេះ​បើ​តាម​អ្នកតំណាង ...

មន្ត្រី​រដ្ឋបាល​ព្រៃឈើ​ចុះ​ស៊ើបអង្កេត​ ដើម្បី​បញ្ជាក់​ថា​ក្រុមហ៊ុន​នេះ​បាន​កាប់​ព្រៃឈើ​ខុសច្បាប់​ និង​កាប់​ឆ្ការ​ដី​ខុស​ពី​តំបន់​សម្បទាន​ដែល​ខ្លួន​មាន​ ដើម្បី​ឆ្លើយ​តប​នឹង​សំណើរ​ឱ្យ​រាជរដ្ឋាភិបាល​អន្តរាគមន៍​ប​ឈ្ឈប់​ការ​កាប់​បំផ្លាញ​ដី​ព្រៃ​សហគមន៍​របស់​ជនជាតិ​ដើម​ភាគតិច ...

Ethnic Jarai villagers and a local rights worker yesterday discovered about 3,000 more logs that have been illegally cut by the Vietnamese owners of a rubber concession in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadaw district, according to rights group Adhoc. The logs were found stockpiled in dense forest inside ...

A group of ethnic Kreung families living in Ratanakkiri’s Lumphat district have accused a wealthy plantation owner of destroying their crops and threatening to evict them from their homes, local officials and villagers said yesterday. Soeun Sarath, a representative of 13 indigenous families living in Kaleng ...

Forestry Administration officials and police yesterday discovered a stockpile of more than 1,000 logs that ethnic Jarai villagers in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadaw district claim have been illegally cut by the Vietnamese owners of a rubber concession, a district official said. The 4,000-hectare concession was granted to ...

The Forestry Administration and military police are investigating reports of a stockpile of nearly 300 logs that ethnic Jarai villagers in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadaw district claim have been illegally cut by the Vietnamese owners of a land concession, local officials said yesterday. Indigenous villagers living in Paknhai ...

Seven Vietnamese men have been arrested for illegally felling trees inside two government-granted economic land concessions in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadaw district, where a Jarai ethnic minority community is fighting to preserve the forest and their ancestral lands. ...

Representatives of an ethnic Jarai community in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadaw district, along with local human rights group Adhoc, have called on two Vietnamese rubber companies to cease the clearing of forests on their ancestral land and exporting the logs to Vietnam. The companies, Day Dong Yoeun ...

Ethnic minority Kreung villagers filed a complaint against commune level authorities on Saturday for allegedly accepting money from a businessman to clear their ancestral land for a new rubber plantation in Ratanakkiri province, local NGOs and villagers said. ...

Sixty families in Kompong Cham province’s Krathor district are planning to file a complaint with provincial authorities after local land management officials decided to take away their registration documents for land titles under Prime Minister Hun Sen’s recently launched titling program. Pon Pumm, 44 a farmer, ...

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, ...

Canadian funding for ethnic minority communities in the process of applying for communal land titles will run out in March, and other donors have not yet signed up to take over the task, officials from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), which currently provides the ...

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 ...

On the second day of his two-day visit to Ratanakkiri, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday cajoled indigenous minority members about their ready adoption of new technology amid the shift away from traditional ways of life, and extolled the benefits of rubber plantations over their ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen mocked a group of ethnic minority villagers who tried to petition him on Friday about their land dispute in northern Cambodia’s Rattanakiri province, after they were stopped from presenting their complaint during his visit on a land-titling campaign. Hun Sen was ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday distributed 541 land titles covering 1,308 hectares to 301 mostly ethnic minority families in Andong Meas district. ...