Land

Land tenure and land titling

Railway residents want to talk payments

More than two weeks after petitioning Phnom Penh authorities to halt a project to transform a disused railway line into a road, 50 to 60 affected villagers yesterday returned to City Hall seeking an audience with City Governor Pa Socheatvong to discuss compensation. ...

Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/railway-residents-want-talk-payments

Families near airport push for land titles

About 600 families living next to Phnom Penh International Airport urged the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA) yesterday to help speed up the process of giving them titles to their land. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34640/families-near-airport-push--for-land-titles/

Land title total soars

Land titles were issued for nearly four million people involving 500,000 land plots last year, nearly two thirds of the total of seven million plots, the Land Ministry has reported. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34426/land-title-total-soars/

Order signals likely end to airport land dispute

The Council of Ministers on Tuesday directed the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA) to submit a confirmation that the city’s airport will not be expanded so that officials can begin issuing land titles to surrounding communities, seemingly signalling an end a long-running land dispute.  ...

Touch Sokha and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/order-signals-likely-end-airport-land-dispute

Coastal land rights protest rages on

The prime minister’s call for provincial governors to help solve land disputes has fallen on deaf ears, according to members of a group of 500 protesters who demonstrated in front of the Preah Sihanouk provincial government hall yesterday asking for an expedited land titling process ...

May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33329/coastal-land-rights-protest-rages-on/

Chroy Changvar locals reject city’s ultimatum

About 40 Chroy Changvar peninsula residents yesterday held a press conference rejecting City Hall’s two-month ultimatum to part with most of their land or accept below-market rates to make way for a planned satellite city. ...

Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chroy-changvar-locals-reject-citys-ultimatum

Kratie disputants pay visit to ministry

Twenty Cham villagers from Kratie province’s Snuol district yesterday visited the Ministry of Land Management and Urban Planning to demand authorities resolve their community’s seven-year-old land dispute with two rubber companies. ...

Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kratie-disputants-pay-visit-ministry

Two months to claim land certificates

City Hall said villagers affected by the development project of the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar district would have two months to claim the certificate of land policy before it would stop assuming responsibility for losses, according to a statement ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29893/two-months-to-claim-land-certificates/

Protest for land titles at ministry

About 200 people representing 540 families from the Prek Takong 1 and Kva communities in the capital’s Meanchey and Dangkao districts gathered in front of the Land Management Ministry for the fourth time yesterday, asking to receive titles from land cut from the ING City ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29570/protest-for-land-titles-at-ministry/

Veteran families push for land titles

Representatives of 120 families consisting of veterans and disabled soldiers living in Banteay Meanchey province’s Malai district asked the government and provincial authorities to expedite the delivery of land titles as they have been living on land the government gave them for three years without ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29436/veteran-families-push-for-land-titles/

Land measured for villagers

A land dispute working group in Preah Sihanouk province yesterday started measuring land for three communities in Smach Daeng village in Prey Nob district’s Ream commune, who had a long-running land dispute with the Yi Yea Group Company who had received an economic land concession ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29087/land-measured-for-villagers/

Villagers seek help in land disputes

Almost 80 people representing 305 families involved in land disputes in Phnom Penh and Takeo provinces yesterday gathered at the Ministry of Land Management to ask the ministry to expedite the resolution of their disputes and provide them with legal land titles. A group of 50 ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28916/villagers-seek-help-in-land-disputes/

Ministry seeks funds from US for land dispute resolution

Land Management Minister Chea Sophara met with US Ambassador William Heidt on Monday evening to discuss the progress of recently established land dispute working groups and to request funding for an initiative to incentivise the resolution of such disputes. A ministry press release said Sophara ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-seeks-funds-us-land-dispute-resolution

Hun Sen gives land titles to families

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday announced that he had instructed Takeo provincial governor Lay Vannak to give land titles to 31 families after they had asked him via Facebook to intervene in their long-running land dispute with the provincial department of commerce. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28575/hun-sen-gives-land-titles-to-families/

Railway land dispute escalates

Residents from villages in Phnom Penh’s Pur Senchey district gathered outside the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction yesterday to ask the prime minister and government to honor their titles to land they said had been claimed by Royal Railway. ...

Call for faster land titling for indigenous communities

NGO Forum director Tek Vannara yesterday called on the Ministry of Land Management to speed up collective land titling for indigenous communities. ...

Thik Kaliyann
http://bit.ly/2afc0Mv

Borei Keila evictees seek more compensation

Ten former Borei Keila residents who were relocated to a site in Kandal province’s Ponhea Leu district known as Phnom Bat filed a petition with the Ministry of Land Management yesterday requesting they either be given $5,000 and moved back to Phnom Penh or be ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/borei-keila-evictees-seek-more-compensation

ING project prompts request for land titles

Ten people representing 380 families who fear they will be affected by an ING Holdings project in the south of Phnom Penh yesterday submitted a letter to the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Development and Construction requesting that the villagers’ land be cut out of ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ing-project-prompts-request-land-titles

Communal land grant process too slow, says EU ambassador

European Union Ambassador yesterday criticized the slowness of the communal land title process introduced in 2001 to protect the ancestral forests and farmland of Cambodia’s indigenous groups. ...

Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24039/communal-land-grant-process-too-slow--says-eu-ambassador/

Villagers intervene to prevent alleged arrest in land dispute

Villagers involved in a land dispute in Preah Vihear province say police attempted to arrest one of their representatives on Wednesday after about 200 of them returned to reclaim their land, while the district governor said he was only seeking to speak with the villagers. ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-intervene-to-prevent-alleged-arrest-in-land-dispute-110343/

Final appeal of Boeng Kak activists rejected

The legal battle of 13 land rights activists from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood ended on Wednesday with the Supreme Court upholding their conviction for aggravated obstruction of public officials and illegal occupation. ...

Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/final-appeal-of-boeng-kak-activists-rejected-109993/

Residents seek legislative intervention in land dispute

About 65 villagers from Kampong Speu province’s Phnom Srouch district handed out petitions yesterday urging the National Assembly to push the provincial court into releasing two of their leaders.​ ...

Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22744/residents-seek-legislative-intervention-in-land-dispute/

Preah Sihanouk residents gather in defense of disputed land

Nearly 100 residents from Samrong commune’s O’Trachak Chit village in Preah Sihanouk province’s Prey Nup district gathered yesterday in front of the provincial hall to ask authorities to expedite the resolution of their year-long land dispute with the provincial Forestry Administration, according to community representatives. ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21415/preah-sihanouk-residents-gather-in-defense-of-disputed-land/

Communities in Daun Penh to receive land titles

Temporary residents on state-owned plots in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district will receive land titles, according to an official letter from the Council of Ministers released Friday. ...

Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21416/communities-in-daun-penh-to-receive-land-titles/

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