Kratie Protest Puts Brakes on Land Demarcation
More than 100 people in Kratie province staged a peaceful protest on Sunday after excavators mobilized by a South Korean timber firm tried to clear and demarcate concession land, a commune official said yesterday. The company, Think Biotech, was granted 34,000 hectares of land on May 30, 2011, and is a subsidiary of South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Group. The dispute centers around 400 hectares of the concession land, which 150 families in Sambor district’s Kompong Cham commune claim as their own. …
