Land

The south-eastern province of Svay Rieng is expected to achieve mine-free status next year through Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Project for Mine Action (STP-MA) themed “Providing Safe Ground, Creating smiles”.​ ...

The government has issued more than six million land titles over the last five years with the final batch expected to be completed this year. Theng Chan Sangvar, Secretary of State of Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, said yesterday that 6,584,778 land ...

After Prime Minister Hun Sen told the ringleaders who incited people to encroach on state land in Preah Sihanouk province to come forward, three men came forward to admit their guilt. The trio attempted to portray themselves as victims in a land dispute protest and ...

Preah Sihanouk provincial authorities arrested four people for alleged illegal construction of huts within an area of Stung Hav district owned by the company that runs the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone. ...

Twenty-one families involved in a years-long land dispute in Kratie province’s Chhlong district, say they are struggling to make ends meet after losing their farmland and have received no compensation from the government. The families from Proma village, Kampong Damrei commune, had their land seized in ...

Bunong community leader Miv Khem, 29, who like his neighbors in Memang commune relies on subsistence rice farming, dates the start of the dispute to 2017, when management of both the Keo Seima and Phnom Prich wildlife sanctuaries were transferred to the Environment Ministry. Protected ...

Kim Yang was almost asleep on the edge of his Mondulkiri rice farm one evening in February when he was jolted awake by flashlights. It was 11 p.m., and he planned to get a few hours of rest at the plantation rather than drive the ...

A new ruling-party commune chief in Koh Kong province has refused to accept a petition from village residents asking for a resolution to their dispute against Senator Ly Yong Phat. ...

Landfilling is underway off the shore of Kampot as the government has transferred 600 hectares to a private company to develop a $1.7-billion port. ...

Five of Cambodia’s 25 provinces will soon be declared mine-free under the Samdech Techo Project for Mine Action (STP-MA) initiated by Prime Minster Hun Sen, and by the end of 2023, 12 provinces will be free of landmines and other explosive remnants of war (ERW). ...

Four commune administrations in Takeo province — including two containing controversial developments in Phnom Tamao forest — gathered Wednesday morning over local residents living on state land, an official said. ...

Kampong Seila Special Economic Zone Co Ltd on July 29 signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Environmental Protection Industry Associations of Cambodia (EPIAC) in a bid to promote environmental protection at the namesake special economic zone (SEZ) in Preah Sihanouk province and enhance its ...

Mondulkiri villagers say a local road has been blocked by a private landowner, but they are not sure who is behind the development and a commune chief says he is unaware of the dispute. ...

Representatives of about 80 families living around southern Phnom Penh’s major lake development say they fear eviction as sandfilling is nearing their houses and they have yet to receive the land titles promised to them by authorities. ...

Phnom Penh officials said they will begin reconstructing a road that collapsed into the Tonle Sap River in Chroy Changva district earlier this year, another instance of the riverbank collapsing due to erosion. ...

More than 300 village residents from Koh Kong province protested at a district hall on Monday, asking for a social land concession to resolve their longstanding land conflict with a sugarcane plantation. ...

A ruling-party parliamentarian, a CPP senator’s family member and a business associate of the prime minister’s daughter are among the latest recipients of state-land transfers that have been distributing lakes, forests and wildlife sanctuaries to the country’s elite. ...

The government has provided 104ha of a social land concession (SLC) in Dounba commune’s Kouk Roka village of Battambang province’s Kors Kralor district for housing and farming to 104 veterans. ...

Bat Savoeun claims he has Prime Minister Hun Sen’s signoff to farm his 2 hectares of land in Prek Tabaek village, on the edge of the swelling Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia’s Pursat province. ...

As the country’s mine action centres mobilize to tackle and fast-track measures to make Cambodia mine-free by 2025, Tboung Khmum will be the first mine-free province under the “Samdech Techo Project for Mine Action”. ...

At least six hectares of land in the Tamouk lake area, also known as Boeng Kob Srov, have been handed over by the government to Seng Youan, Director-General of the General Department of Logistics and Finance of the Ministry of Interior, for personal use and ...

The government needs another $65 million on top of the $15 million already received in donations to clear 190 mine-contaminated areas and make Cambodia mine-free by 2025. ...

Cambodia is ready to for the implementation of the “Providing Safe Ground, Creating Smiles” project in three provinces and eight districts. ...

Cambodia and Colombia have reaffirmed commitment for both bilateral and multilateral cooperation, especially under the South-South program. ...