Villagers Torch Firm’s Shed Over Land Concession
About 400 villagers in Kratie province’s Chhlong district protested yesterday in an effort to stop Kasten agro-industrial company from building houses on contested farmland, the protesters said. The company used red paint to demarcate its boundary and started building houses on the farmland in January, said one villager, Bun Sorn... District governor Soum Sarith said that the government gave 15,000 hectares of land to Kasten in 2008 but declined to elaborate. …
