Land
Ethnic Phnong claim their forest land was grabbed by officials
An ethnic Phnong community in Kratie province’s Snuol district has accused local officials and soldiers of grabbing over 1,000 hectares of community forest and threatening the lives of local villagers for years, with the rights group Adhoc yesterday saying they would take the case to ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ethnic-phnong-claim-their-forest-land-was-grabbed-officials
Evictions sweep away Sihanoukville beach businesses
The New Year brought a new wave of evictions and development to more than 5 square kilometres on Preah Sihanouk province’s Ochheuteal Beach, though local authorities remain in the dark about what company is behind the development. ...
Cheng Sokhorng and Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/evictions-sweep-away-sihanoukville-beach-businesses
Poipet families protest for help in land dispute
Some 30 families from Poipet city’s Phsar Kandal commune yesterday protested in front of the Poipet Town Hall to demand intervention from authorities to resolve a land dispute with a man who claims to be an “adviser” to Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poipet-families-protest-help-land-dispute
CMAC steps up mines clearance for 2018
Heng Ratana said yesterday that CMAC would also carry out minefield information research and education programmes this year, as well as strengthen volunteer networks in 700 villages and provide job training to people disabled as a result of landmines. ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5099630/cmac-steps-mines-clearance-2018/
Soldier suing Oddar Meanchey villagers over land dispute
A military lieutenant is suing 13 families in Oddar Meanchey for allegedly farming his land, which lies within a protected community forest in Anlong Veng district, local authorities confirmed yesterday. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/soldier-suing-oddar-meanchey-villagers-over-land-dispute
Villagers ask for help in land disputes
Villagers in Preah Vihear province locked in land disputes with five economic land concessions belonging to sugar cane firms have urged provincial authorities to resolve their conflicts. Kroeun Vong, a villager representative in Chey Sen district, said ministry officials solved some cases by giving one hectare ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5099143/villagers-ask-help-land-disputes/
Rat demining aid granted
The Cambodia Mine Action Centre has received a grant of more than $170,000 from APOPO, a rat-demining organization, to support the HeroRat activities in clearing landmines in Siem Reap province. Also, in 2018, CMACC will also receive $1.2 million from the United Nations Development Program ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5099140/rat-demining-aid-granted/
Disputes over land fall in 2017
In 2017, according to a ministry report, the cadastral survey commission solved 85 land dispute cases for 326 families, which amounted to 44.5 hectares. It found 37 cases to have been wrongly authorized and withdrew another 11 complaints. The report added that from the start of ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5099139/disputes-land-fall-2017/
CMAC to receive $1.2 million for 2018 project
The Cambodian Mine Action Centre will receive $1.2 million from the United Nations Development Program for a one-year mine clearance project in three provinces in 2018. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5098732/cmac-recieve-1-2-million-2018-project/
Government gives land to villagers
The government has decided to transfer nearly 100 hectares of land on Koh Sdach island in Koh Kong province’s Kiri Sakor district to local residents, who were concerned they would be forced to relocate by development companies. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5098727/government-gives-land-villagers/
22 more Boeung Kak families receive land titles
Twenty-two families who were still protesting their evictions from the Boeung Kak lake area accepted offers from the city today, leaving 10 holdouts remaining more than a decade after the lake was first sold and filled in. The families, from Village 1, each accepted a ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/22-more-boeung-kak-families-receive-land-titles
CMAC, Golden West renew cooperation agreement
Heng Ratana, president of the Cambodian Mine Action Centre, announced on Tuesday the renewal of a partnership with the Golden West Humanitarian Foundation, which is supported by the US State Department. ...
Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-golden-west-renew-cooperation-agreement
Officials partially tear down home for road
Preah Sihanouk province authorities yesterday demolished part of one home and its fence, which had encroached on a road they are trying to widen in the province’s Prey Nop district. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-partially-tear-down-home-road
Officials reminded of land rental issue
Authorities in Takeo province yesterday reminded local border officials to pay closer attention to issues surrounding the lease of Cambodian land to Vietnamese farmers. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5098330/officials-reminded-land-rental-issue/
Agriculture sector has seen its share of empty promises
The promises of Chinese agro-industrial investment have been recurrent: Hyped up by local officials and media outlets, with photographs of handshakes and earnest negotiation posted across social media, major deals are announced between government ministries and visiting delegations. ...
Agriculture sector has seen its share of empty promises Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/agriculture-sector-has-seen-its-share-empty-promises
PPSEZ to issue 14 million new shares
CSX-listed Phnom Penh SEZ Plc has announced it will issue 14 million new shares after securing shareholder approval on Friday during a general meeting. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5098013/ppsez-issue-14-million-new-shares/
Changes ahead for Sihanoukville
The government is planning to build a massive economic zone in Preah Sihanouk province to accommodate up to 10,000 factories similar to Thailand’s eastern economic corridor. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5097894/changes-ahead-sihanoukville/
Group ends its probe of chemical weapons
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) wrapped up its investigation into chemical substances left behind by US bombing during the Vietnam War this weekend, according to government newswire AKP. ...
Phak Seangly and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/group-ends-its-probe-chemical-weapons
As deadline passes, Borei Keila residents reject final offer
A deadline for a group of Borei Keila residents to accept compensation or leave their homes with nothing passed on Friday, with none of the residents agreeing to move to a resettlement site, and authorities saying they have no right to remain, but with no ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/deadline-passes-borei-keila-residents-reject-final-offer
Deadline arrives for Borei Keila residents
Villagers in one of Phnom Penh’s fiercest land disputes said yesterday they are determined to stay in Borei Keila despite today’s deadline to either accept compensation or leave with nothing. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/deadline-arrives-borei-keila-residents
Cham struggle to build new lives after moving
The Cham families along the Tonle Sap in this area of Kandal have traditionally lived and worked on the river, some for more than five decades. But now they are building a village on land called “Islam Thmey”, or “New Islam”, to seek what they ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cham-struggle-build-new-lives-after-moving
Private entities handed state land
The government has converted three plots of land in Phnom Penh from state public property to state private property – effectively handing them to private entities – including a Ministry of Planning office on Monivong Boulevard that was transferred to the son-in-law of a senior ...
Mech Dara and Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/private-entities-handed-state-land
Preah Vihear land dispute families block tractors
Representatives of 40 families locked in a decade-old land dispute with a Chinese sugar company in Preah Vihear province blocked tractors from clearing land that the villagers say belongs to them, while 50 families in a separate land dispute in Koh Kong took their complaints ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-land-dispute-families-block-tractors
More than 37,000 bombs destroyed by CMAC
More than 37,000 unexploded landmines and explosive remnants of war have been found and destroyed so far this year, according to the Cambodian Mine Action Centre. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5096823/37000-bombs-destroyed-cmac/