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. ...
