Villagers in Kampong Chhnang win land back

30 November 2012
The Phnom Penh Post
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease
Adhoc / Cheung Sopheap / community forest / Economic Land Concessions (ELCs) / Hun Sen / Kampong Chhnang Province / moratorium / Pheapimex Group / Pursat Province / Royal Book / Senator Lao Meng Khin / Tek Phos district

Prime Minister Hun Sen has reclassified 4,158 hectares of a massive land concession owned by the wife of Senator Lao Meng Khin from his own party for displaced families in Kampong Chhnang province. A jubilant representative of the 4,506 families who have long battled against the 315,028 hectare concession granted to Cheung Sopheap’s Pheapimex Group and now stand to benefit thanked the prime minister. …

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