Land
Prime minister’s brother Hun San requests ‘serious action’ against top cop
The prime minister’s older brother Hun San has sent a letter to the Interior Ministry asking for “serious action” to be taken against a deputy National Police chief over an alleged dispute on his land in Banteay Meanchey province. ...
Complaint in Koh Kong over destroyed crops
Some 100 villagers in Koh Kong province’s Thma Bang district removed warning posts put up by environmental rangers and a conservation NGO around land that had been allegedly cleared by the residents since 2013 for farming, filing a complaint against the NGO for allegedly destroying ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/complaint-koh-kong-over-destroyed-crops
Roadside families protest at City Hall
Nearly 100 residents living along a stretch of land running from a railway in Boeung Kak to National Road 5 have gathered again outside City Hall to demand information about the development of a new road threatening to destroy their homes. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38081/roadside-families--protest-at-city-hall/
Public road reopened after ditch filled in
Authorities yesterday dismantled fences and filled in a ditch in order to reopen a road, allegedly disconnected by two real estate companies several years ago, to public access in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/public-road-reopened-after-ditch-filled
Boeung Kak lake dispute ‘closed’
Phnom Penh City Hall yesterday washed its hands of the decadelong contentious Boeung Kak lake issue, saying it was closing its conflict resolution process, leaving seven families who had refused to accept the government’s offers in the lurch. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/boeung-kak-lake-dispute-closed
Boeung Kak rally: Eight held in capital over WB protest
Daun Penh district security guards briefly arrested eight women outside World Bank headquarters yesterday morning during a peaceful demonstration for Phnom Penh’s Boeung Kak community. ...
The Phnom Penh Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/boeung-kak-rally-eight-held-capital-over-wb-protest
Border logging Man loses limbs in UXO explosion
A Cambodian attempting to cross into Thailand to log rosewood lost his right leg and arm after stepping on a landmine on Monday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/border-logging-man-loses-limbs-uxo-explosion
Ministry, NGOs discuss country’s biggest land disputes
Land Management Ministry officials met with a consortium of NGOs at their main office in Phnom Penh on Monday to discuss 11 of the country’s largest land disputes, despite decisions on resolving such matters normally being made at a sub-national level, a land rights advocate ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-ngos-discuss-countrys-biggest-land-disputes-128545/
Villagers, soldiers in land battle
Villagers involved in a long-running land dispute in Kratie province’s Sambor district have prevented soldiers from building a fence around disputed land that the army intends to use as a sniper training ground. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-soldiers-land-battle
Opposition councilor held in land dispute
A villager and a CNRP councilor have been detained in a long-running land dispute in Kampong Thom province’s Prasat Ballangk district.A team of police and officers from the provincial forestry administration on Friday demolished the homes of 17 families living on three hectares of disputed ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37378/opposition-councilor-held-in-land-dispute/
Acknowledging U.S. role in bombing, ambassador prioritizes demining efforts
William A. Heidt, U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia, says he is “very aware” of the historical role the United States played in the conflict in Cambodia, which is why he is seeking to prioritize the clearance of unexploded ordinance left behind by years of bombing. ...
Court rebuffs Koh Kong families seeking to reclaim land
The Court of Appeal on Tuesday rejected the request of five families from Koh Kong province to nullify the deals they made seven years ago to give up their land to a local sugarcane plantation on the grounds that they were coerced. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-rebuffs-koh-kong-families-seeking-to-reclaim-land-127541/
Teen dead and child injured in B-40 explosion
One boy died and another was severely injured after an unexploded B-40 rocket they were playing with detonated in Boeng Daeng village, in Kampong Cham’s Stung Trang district, on Monday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/teen-dead-and-child-injured-b-40-explosion
Hun Sen asked to stop military land seizure
Nearly 40 people representing 59 families from a village in Battambang province have submitted a petition asking Prime Minister Hun Sen to help solve their land dispute with soldiers. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37235/hun-sen-asked-to-stop-military-land-seizure/
PPSEZ's profits falls 42%
Phnom Penh Special Economics Zone (PPSEZ) showed its decline of revenue to 42 percents in 2016 which causes 65 percent of net profit’s downfall comparing to the year of 2015, it said in a filing to the Cambodia Securities Exchange yesterday. ...
The Phnom Penh Post Staff
http://bit.ly/2n9omfn
CMAC deminers, dogs going to work in Israel
The Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) will send demining experts and dogs to Israel today, as part of an apparent bid to improve relations between the two countries. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-deminers-dogs-going-work-israel
Illegal logger loses foot to mine
An illegal logger lost a foot to an anti-personnel mine in Preah Vihear province near the border with Thailand on Saturday while searching for rosewood. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-logger-loses-foot-mine-0
Villagers reject City Hall offer
Chroy Changvar peninsula land disputants yesterday delivered a petition to the Ministry of Land Management rejecting City Hall’s proposal to take away 90 percent of their land for the development of a satellite city. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-reject-city-hall-offer
Government threatens land rights protesters with legal action
The Commerce Ministry has threatened to take unspecified legal “measures” against anyone joining a protest against a sugarcane plantation who does not have a personal claim in the dispute. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-threatens-land-rights-protesters-with-legal-action-127079/
More than 70 farmers accept sugar compensation, but 102 refuse
A long-running land dispute between 175 Koh Kong farmers and two sugarcane firms accused of stealing their land came a step closer to conclusion on Thursday after 73 of the farming families accepted compensation, a government official said. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-than-70-farmers-accept-sugar-compensation-but-102-refuse-127005/
Large US bomb found in pond
Divers from the Cambodian Mine Action Center have recovered a 500-pound bomb dropped from US planes on to Kandal province’s Kandal Stung district. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36792/large-us-bomb-found-in-pond/
Families call for return of land
A group of 20 people representing 554 families locked in a 10-year land dispute yesterday submitted a petition asking the government to end the lengthy conflict. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36748/families-call-for-return-of-land/
Old US bombs revive dispute over $500m war-era debt
The head of Cambodia’s largest demining operator cited Monday’s disposal of a pair of decades-old American bombs as part of the government’s mounting efforts to shame the U.S. into canceling the country’s ballooning war-era debt, which now stands at about $500 million. ...
Phan Soumy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/old-us-bombs-revive-dispute-over-500m-war-era-debt-126478/
Women’s Day plea for Vanny
Communities affected by land disputes have used the occasion of International Women’s Day today to urge the government to free activist Tep Vanny. They also called for the release of civil society organization officials and an NEC official who are being held in prison. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36220/women---s-day-plea-for-vanny/