Land
SEZs investment potential relies in infrastructure
In 2005, after special economic zones (SEZs) were formally introduced in Cambodia through a sub-decree, Svay Reing’s Manhattan SEZ became the first to began construction the same year. The Sihanoukville SEZ remains Cambodia’s largest with over 1,000 hectares in the area. The $320 million development is ...
James Whitehead
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/sezs-investment-potential-relies-infrastructure
Land disputant freed on bail in B Meanchey
A community representative was released on bail by Banteay Meanchey Provincial Court on Tuesday, after he was arrested and charged with disturbing private property. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-disputant-freed-bail-b-meanchey
Defence minister to meet UDG in China
Minister of Defence General Tea Banh left for a bilateral military-to-military visit to China yesterday, where it was announced that he would pay a visit to the state-owned Union Development Group, which has drawn the ire of land rights campaigners in Cambodia for forced evictions ...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/defence-minister-meet-udg-china
Gov’t silent after first day of border meeting
Var Kimhong, the CPP government’s minister in charge of border affairs, declined to speak with reporters Tuesday after hosting Vietnam’s deputy foreign minister for the first Joint Border Committee meeting since the opposition CNRP began a campaign to uncover Vietnamese territorial encroachments. ...
Kuch Naren and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-silent-after-first-day-of-border-meeting-87520/
Question time Village rep arrested in B Meanchey
A village representative was arrested on Saturday and sent for questioning yesterday at Banteay Meanchey Provincial Court over allegations of private property destruction in a long-running land dispute with the sister-in-law of Deputy Prime Minister Ke Kim Yan and Chhay Chhay Investment, according to a ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/question-time-village-rep-arrested-b-meanchey
NGO director went to VN border to see incursions
Phen Bunthoeun, the NGO director who was arrested and detained overnight by Vietnamese authorities for leading about 40 students to visit a disputed border area in Svay Rieng province on Saturday, admitted Monday that he had gone there to inspect alleged border violations. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngo-director-went-to-vn-border-to-see-incursions-87435/
Rainsy says VN border map shows intrusions
Ahead of a meeting between Cambodian and Vietnamese border officials in Phnom Penh on Monday, opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Sunday that the CNRP’s digital copy of the border map had now been set up to work with GPS technology and had already revealed misplaced ...
Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rainsy-says-vn-border-map-shows-intrusions-87351/
The economics of ELCs
Economic land concessions in Cambodia have a profound and negative impact upon rural households located near the plantations, severely limiting residents’ access to natural resources and causing incomes to dip by almost a fifth, a new study by the University of Copenhagen has found. The report, ...
Ethan Harfenist
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/economics-elcs
Suspect accused of instigating squatting
A man was arrested in Kampong Cham’s Batheay district on Tuesday by police who allege that he was the ringleader of an illegal land grab in Mondulkiri. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/suspect-accused-instigating-squatting
New SEZ aims for logistics hub
A new special economic zone aiming to make Cambodia into a regional logistics hub held an official groundbreaking ceremony yesterday, at its future home on the muddy outskirts of Phnom Penh in Kandal’s Takhmao district. The $100 million Kerry Worldbridge SEZ project is a partnership between ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-sez-aims-logistics-hub
Vietnam hopes to develop peaceful, friendship borderline with Cambodia: spokesperson
Vietnam attaches great importance to the relationship with Cambodia and hopes to develop a peaceful and friendship borderline with the country, said Le Hai Binh, spokesperson of Vietnamese foreign ministry on Tuesday. ...
Stop stadium plans, CNRP lawmakers ask
Three CNRP lawmakers have issued a letter urging the government to decline a request by tycoon Kith Meng’s Royal Group company to claim rights over a former sports stadium in Battambang province. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/stop-stadium-plans-cnrp-lawmakers-ask
Evicted villagers running out of options
After having her home burnt down, being arrested and driven from land she says is her family’s, Yoa Sa-aim is clinging to her last option. ...
Aisha Down
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12749/evicted-villagers-running-out-of-options/
Family convicted of ‘violence’ over land scuffle
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday convicted a couple and their daughter of using violence against a property owner, although the plaintiff dropped his complaint against them last month. Ly Srea Kheng, 58, has battled tycoon Khun Sear and his eponymous import-export company over a ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/family-convicted-of-violence-over-land-scuffle-86758/
CNRP lawmakers clash at border
Two Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmakers, Um Sam An and Real Camerin, with the youth group got serious injured by the yesterday clash at Svay Rieng province, Cambodia-Vietnam border when they went to inspect the demarcation. ...
Va Sonyka
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12699/cnrp-lawmakers-clash-at-border/
Property boom, not bubble
Phnom Penh is changing at a blinding pace, with major new residential and commercial projects set to transform the capital’s skyline within the next five years. Chrek Soknim, CEO of Century 21 Mekong Realty, one of nearly two dozen Century 21 Cambodia affiliates, sees oversupply ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12684/property-boom--not-bubble/
Hundreds of students leave class to protest
One thousand students and more than 100 teachers demonstrated outside their high school in Banteay Meanchey province’s Serei Saophoan City on Friday against a private construction firm that recommenced work on disputed land, according to the school’s director. ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hundreds-of-students-leave-class-to-protest-86722/
Cambodia villager held in attack on Chinese worker over land dispute
Police in Cambodia’s Tbong Khmum province on Friday arrested a villager accused of injuring a Chinese worker and his translator in a long running land dispute. ...
Saut Sok Pratna
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/cambodia-villager-06262015153727.html
Mekong Skatepark tests the waters for Phnom Penh’s public spaces
An ongoing trend towards urbanization may increase property value near the few public spaces in Phnom Penh significantly. The dusty strip of land behind the Hotel Cambodiana parking lot doesn’t look like the most inspiring place to spend a Sunday afternoon. However this is soon due ...
Eve Watling
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/mekong-skatepark-tests-waters-phnom-penhs-public-spaces
Future condo supply to impact the serviced apartment market
In the first half of 2015, the supply of serviced apartments saw an increase of 14 per cent when compared to the same period last year while rental prices remained stable. According to a recent report from CBRE Cambodia, a total of additional 349 serviced apartment ...
Siv Meng and Rebecca Heliot
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/future-condo-supply-impact-serviced-apartment-market
Cambodian villagers block Chinese developer from clearing grazing land
Around 150 villagers in northwestern Cambodia’s Preah Vihear province have blocked a Chinese concession holder from clearing land they say was reserved for grazing their cattle, an official from a nongovernmental organization and a local commune chief said Wednesday. ...
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/developer-06242015162632.html
Developer’s complaint tossed out
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday ended a long-running land dispute and dropped charges against four Boeung Chhouk community representatives, after the court found no evidence that residents committed violence against local businessman and developer Lao Tonmey. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/developers-complaint-tossed-out
Farm produce sales discourage potential investors
The agriculture industry has lost its luster among industrial manufacturers and service providers. Tycoons are quietly withdrawing money from agriculture projects, just several years after pouring big money into the sector. Just a few years ago, Do Van Minh, Gemadept’s CEO, said that growing rubber ...
Vietnamnet News Staff
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/business/133619/farm-produce-sales-discourage-potential-investors.html
Farmers cry foul on excavation
Four families in Kandal province’s Muk Kampoul district have sued a local official who they accuse of colluding with a village chief to excavate their rice fields without their permission. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/farmers-cry-foul-excavation