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Mystery Surrounds Ratanakkiri’s First Special Economic Zone
- 17 July 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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Construction of a special economic zone (SEZ) near the Vietnamese border in Ratanakkiri province’s eastern O’Yadaw district is on track, but who exactly will avail of the facility and its services remains a mystery—even for senior provincial officials. The latest announced venture of agro-industry land concession ...
Officials own land, claim villagers
- 16 July 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Land / Land tenure and land titling
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Local cadastral land officials, a district governor and RCAF personnel all own plots of a social land concession in Preah Vihear originally intended to be distributed to poor villagers, local rights group Adhoc alleged. In 2007, the government granted 556 hectares of land in Choam Ksan ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-own-land-claim-villagers
Despite Land Loss, Minorities Back Status Quo
- 15 July 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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Romam Gvin could be described as a counterintuitive voter. Intuition might lead you to believe that Mr. Gvin blames the government for the loss of his land to the Vietnamese rubber company that now owns everything for as far as the eye can see here in ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/despite-land-loss-minorities-back-status-quo-34786/
Land complaint filed
- 11 July 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Land / Land tenure and land titling
- Adhoc / Disputed Land / Farmland / Forestry Administration / Forestry Administration director / Forests / Hun Sen Volunteer Youths / In Phomara / Kolen district / land conflicts / Land dispute / Land titles / Lor Chan / Preah Vihear / Preah Vihear Province / Preah Vihear Provincial Deputy Governor / Un Chenda
Four Preah Vihear villagers filed a complaint with rights group Adhoc yesterday, requesting help in gaining permission to farm 93 hectares of land the Provincial Forestry Administration barred them from last year. The four complainants represent 65 families who have farmed the area in Kolen district ...
Families complain governor’s crooked
- 9 July 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Environment and natural resources / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber
- ACU / Adhoc / Anti-Corruption Unit / Chea Ksan district / Chea Ksan district governor / Corruption / Disputed Land / evictions / forced evictions / Forests / illegal logging / land / land conflicts / land disputes / Land rights / Land-grabbing / logging / Long Sitha / Lor Chan / Phnom Penh / Preah Vihear / Preah Vihear Province / Preah Vihear Provincial Court / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Sok Hay / timber
More than 30 families evicted from a former airport site in Preah Vihear province’s Chea Ksan district have filed four complaints with the provincial court since April against district governor Sok Hay. Lor Chan, provincial coordinator for rights group Adhoc, said a total of 31 families ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013070966736/National/families-complain-governor-s-crooked.html
Critics Say Hun Sen’s Land Title Program Is Biased
- 8 July 2013
- Voice of America (VOA)
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A controversial land titling program set up by Prime Minister Hun Sen has been suspended ahead of the July 28 elections, but critics say the program should not be restarted. The titling program itself began in December 2012 and is expected to end after elections scheduled ...
Crop burning alleged
- 8 July 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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Less than two months after staffers at a Vietnamese rubber concessionaire were charged over setting homes aflame during a land dispute, the company has been accused of burning and bulldozing more than 900 cashew nut trees and eight hectares of plantation land in O’Chum district, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013070866717/National/crop-burning-alleged.html
Anti-trafficking laws under-enforced: NGO
- 4 July 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agriculture and fishing / Fishing, fisheries and aquaculture / Human rights / Human trafficking / Law and judiciary / Social development
- Adhoc / Anti-trafficking laws / compensation / Fiji / Fishing / fishing boats / Giant Ocean International Fishery Co. Ltd. / Human trafficking / impunity / Kampong Speu / Kampong Speu Province / labor / labour / Lin Yu Shin / Migrant Workers / migrant workers' rights / NGOs / nongovernmental organizations / slave labour / Thun Saray / trafficking
Rem Vannak remains in poor health after enduring about two years of 21-hour days working for no pay on a fishing boat in Fiji, where he was beaten when he complained. Lin Yu Shin, who owns Giant Ocean – the company Vannak worked for that allegedly ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013070466659/National/anti-trafficking-laws-under-enforced-ngo.html
Housing Activists Clash With Police in Street Protest
- 1 July 2013
- Voice of America (VOA)
- Gender / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Women in development
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At least two women were injured Monday as housing rights activists clashed with police in Phnom Penh. The activists had been demonstrating by sitting in a major street in front of City Hall to demand land titles in two ongoing land disputes in the capital, those ...
Ratanakkiri reporter alleges illegal logging assault
- 26 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Environment and natural resources / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Logging and timber
- Adhoc / Adhoc provincial coordinator / Cheat Sachak newspaper / Chhay Thy / Forests / Illegal loggers / illegal logging / Protected areas / protected forest / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Ratanakkiri provincial military police / Sesan district / Siv Samet / Stung Treng / Stung Treng Province / timber / Vorakchun Khmer newspaper / Wood
A reporter from Cheat Sachak newspaper in Ratanakkiri province filed a complaint to provincial military police and rights group Adhoc on Monday, claiming he had been beaten by a group of illegal loggers to stop him from reporting on their activities. Phon Bun Thoen, 53, said ...
Judge forces sparse settlement on family of beaten children
- 19 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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The Ratanakkiri Provincial Court yesterday forced a family whose three children were allegedly beaten by DM Group firm employees last month to accept only $1,000 in compensation in place of the $40,000 the family initially had demanded, the children’s father claimed. Ry Sarun, 52, said that ...
SEZ adds to tycoon’s growing portfolio
- 12 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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Okhna Try Pheap’s ballooning empire of exclusive natural resource licences and concessions has been expanded even further with the granting of a special economic zone (SEZ) in Ratanakkiri province. The May 27 issue of the Royal Gazette reveals Pheap was granted a 136-hectare SEZ in O’Yadav ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061266216/National/sez-adds-to-tycoon-s-growing-portfolio.html
New claim filed against Giant Ocean
- 11 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agriculture and fishing / Fishing, fisheries and aquaculture / Human rights / Human trafficking / Judiciary and courts / Social development
- Adhoc / Adhoc Kampong Chhnang Province Program Officer / Boats / Commercial fishing / compensation / criminal activity / Fiji / Fishermen / Fishing / fishing boats / Giant Ocean International Fishery / Giant Ocean International Fishery Co. Ltd. / Giant Ocean International Fishery Owner / Giant Ocean International Fishery owner Lin Yu Shin / Human Rights / Human trafficking / labor / labor law / labor law violations / labour rights / Lai Im / Lin Yu Shin / Migrant Workers / Ocean International Fishery Co Ltd / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh Municipal Court / slavery / trafficking / wages / workers
A fresh complaint has been filed against a company already before the courts for allegedly running a human-trafficking racket that sent more than 150 Cambodians onto fishing boats as virtual slaves. More than 20 men who claim they were forced to work almost without sleep and ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061166187/National/new-claim-filed-against-giant-ocean.html
Sugar Firm Staff Protest Over Unpaid Wages
- 10 June 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economy and commerce / Industries / Labor / Labor policy and administration / Sugar
- Adhoc / Cambodian Government / Deputy Prime Minister Yim Chay Ly / Economic growth / energy / ethanol distillery / Factories / Heng Soha / Indochina Food Pte Ltd / Investment / Kompong Cham / Kompong Cham Province / kratie / Kratie district governor Heng Soha / Kratie Province / labor / low wages / O'Kreing commune / power plant / Prey Veng / Prey Veng Province / protests / Renewable Energy / RGC / Royal Government of Cambodia / Sambor district / sugar / sugar factory / sugar plantations / sugar refinery / sugarcane / Svay Reing / Svay Reing province / thermal energy / thermal energy plant / unpaid wages / wages / Yim Chay Ly
About 250 laborers working at a newly opened $90-million sugar factory complex in Kratie province-hailed by the government as a boon to Cambodia’s economy-staged a protest last Saturday morning demanding to be reimbursed for two weeks worth of unpaid wages. District governor Heng Soha acted ...
Ratanakkiri Dispute Case Drags on
- 6 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Social development
- Adhoc / Adhoc provincial coordinator / Chhay Thy / construction / Disputed Land / ethnic minorities / evictions / Farmland / illegal construction / Keh Chung commune / land clearing / land conflicts / land deals / Land dispute / Land rights / Ly Sokkim Co Ltd / Par Or Village / protests / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Ratanakkiri provincial court / Ratanakkiri Provincial Court Prosecutor / Ros Saram / Tampuon / villagers
A village chief and an ethnic minority Tompuon villager were the latest people brought before the Ratanakkiri court for questioning after a private company accused villagers of destroying its property. Kvas Cheav, 57, village chief of Par Or in Keh Chung commune, told the Post that ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060666099/National/ratanakkri-dispute-case-drags-on.html
Homes, Trees Destroyed, Villagers Say
- 31 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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- Adhoc / Adhoc provincial coordinator / Che Chei / Corruption / destruction / Disputed Land / ELCs / evictions / Farm Land / forced evictions / human rights violations / illegal logging / land conflict / Land dispute / MDS Import Export Co Ltd / Oknha Try Pheap / Phoung Sothear / Prom Ngorn / Pursat / Pursat Province / rubber / rubber trees / social land concessions / Thai Border / Thailand / Thma Da Commune Chief / Veal Veng district / Veal Veng District Governor / villagers
About 50 police, soldiers and environmental officials yesterday demolished two houses and cut down thousands of trees belonging to families who are locked in a land dispute with MDS Import Export Co, owned by tycoon Try Pheap, villagers in Pursat province claimed. Fellow villager Khouch ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013053165987/National/homes-trees-destroyed-villagers-say.html
Families seek to Farm Land Claimed by RCAF
- 30 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Rice
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Some 300 families from Bantey Meanchey province’s Preah Netr Preah district-embroiled in two separate long-running disputes with Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF)-yesterday submitted complaints to the provincial governor asking for permission to temporarily farm on the land until the ownership dispute is resolved, villagers and ...
Water Cannon Crackdown on Cambodian Land Activists
- 29 May 2013
- Radio Free Asia
- Economy and commerce / Gender / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Women in development
- Adhoc / Boeng Kak / Boeung Kak / Borei Keila / City Hall spokesman Long Dyman / development projects / Factories / forced evictions / Garment factories / Human Rights / land activist Yorm Bopha / land and housing rights / land disputes / Land Rights Activist Tep Vanny / LICADHO / Long Dyman / minimum wages / Pa Socheatvong / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh City Hall / Phnom Penh Municipal Court / Phnom Penh municipal governor Pa Socheatvong / Police / protests / Resettlement / stun batons / Supreme Court / Supreme Court of Cambodia / Tep Vanny / Thmar Koul / wages / water cannons / Yorm Bopha
Cambodian police used water cannons Wednesday to disperse around 200 women demanding a quick resolution to long-running land disputes, knocking at least three of the protesters, including a 72-year-old, unconscious. The move came two days after authorities used stun batons to disperse a protest over wages ...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/land-05292013164116.html
Firms’ Timber Trade Decried
- 28 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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Two firms holding concessions in rapidly disappearing northern forests are amassing stockpiles of tens of thousands of luxury logs cut both within and outside their leases and trucking them on to Vietnam, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights has alleged. CCHR investigators that tracked logging operations ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052865880/National/firms-timber-trade-decried.html
Tampuon File Complaint Over Forest Clearing
- 28 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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- Adhoc / Bakeo district / community forest / deforestation / Forest / forest clearing / illegal logging / indigenous people / indigenous peoples land / land acquisition / land clearing / Pao Ham Phan / Provincial Deputy Prosecutor Ros Samram / Provincial Governor Pao Ham Phan / Ratanakirri Provincial Deputy Prosecutor Ros Samram / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Ratanakkiri provincial governor Pao Ham Phan / Ros Samram / rubber / rubber investor / rubber trees / Soeung commune / Sou village / Tampuon / Tampuon ethic minority / Tampuon villagers
A community of ethnic minority Tampuon people in Ratanakkiri province yesterday filed a complaint with the provincial court against six people they believe illegally cleared 80 hectares of community forest land and sold it to a rubber investor, villagers and court officials said. The land in ...
Land Battle Headed to Court
- 27 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Civil society / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Human rights / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Protected forest / Social development
- Adhoc / Adhoc Investigator / Bakeo district / Bakeo District Governor / compensation / deforestation / Disputed Land / ethnic minority / ethnic Tampuon / Forest / forest clearance / forest clearing / Heng Bunthan / illegal logging / indegenous group / Laminh commune / Laminh Commune Chief / land conflict / Land dispute / Land rights / logging / Mean Promony / Pen Sophon / protected forest / Rattanakiri / Rattanakiri province / Rattanakiri Provincial Court / Suo Village / Tampuon / villagers
Eight ethnic Tampuon villagers from Ratanakkiri’s Bakeo district will file a lawsuit at provincial court today alleging that more than 70 hectares of protected forest have been illegally cleared by a police official and six villagers from a neighbouring commune. Ting Kham Se, 52, of Laminh ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052765851/National/land-battle-headed-to-court.html
Judge Denies Coercion Claim in Land Dispute Assault Case
- 24 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Social development
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A father whose three children were badly beaten by employees of a rubber plantation has accused a Ratanakkiri Provincial Court judge of threatening to send two sons, aged 14 and 21, to jail unless they accept $1,000 in compensation and drop the assault complaint. Ry Saron ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/judge-denies-coercion-claim-in-assault-case-26546/
CNRP Lawmaker Visits Controversial Plantation
- 22 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Community forest / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forest classifications / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber / National parks and wildlife sanctuaries / Public land lease / Rubber / Social development
- Adhoc / Cambodia National Rescue Party / CNRP / CNRP law maker Son Chhay / Company 72 / degraded forests / Disputed Land / ELCs / ethic Jarai minority / ethnic Jarai minorities / ethnic minority land / Forests / Human Rights / illegal logging / illegal logging trade / indigenous people / indigenous peoples land / indigenous peoples rights / Jarai / Jarai community / Land concessions / logging / National Assembly / O’Yadaw district / opposition law maker Son Chhay / Plantations / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / rubber / rubber firms / Rubber plantation / Son Chhay / Vietnamese rubber firm
Opposition lawmaker Son Chhay said yesterday that he would ask the government to cancel the land concession of a Vietnamese rubber firm in Ratanakkiri province he accused of logging and exporting wood illegally. Mr. Chay, a candidate in July’s national election for the Cambodia National Rescue ...
Dad ‘Threatened’ by Court
- 22 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease
- Adhoc / Adhoc Provincial Coordinator Chhay Thy / Chhay Thy / Disputed Land / DM Group / DM Group Company / economic land concession / ELCs / Eng Chamnag / Farmland / land clearing / Land rights / Ratanakkiri provincial court / Ratanakkiri Provincial Court Judge / Rattanakiri / Rattanakiri province / rubber / Rubber DM Group Company / Rubber plantation / Ry Sarun
The father of three youths allegedly beaten by DM Group workers earlier this month said court officers yesterday threatened to imprison him if he did not agree to compromise with the company and drop the case. Ry Sarun appeared at Ratanakkiri Provincial Court yesterday to answer ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052265776/National/dad-threatened-by-court.html