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Villagers blame rubber company

19 July 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Rubber
Adhoc / Chom Poy / CPP / Disputed Land / ELCs / Eminent Elite (Cambodia) Co.Ltd / Farm Land / Kulen district / Kulen district governor / land conflicts / land disputes / Land titles / land titling / Malaysian company / Malaysian rubber company / Ministry of Land Management / Preah Vihear / Preah Vihear Province / rubber / Sro Yong commune / villagers / volunteer students

Villagers in Preah Vihear’s Kulen district are seeking the assistance of rights group Adhoc, claiming a Malaysian rubber company has stopped them from receiving land titles. Sok Yam, 48, one of the four representatives of the Sro Yong commune residents, said members of 72 families thumbprinted ...

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Hundreds demonstrate on activist’s behalf

9 July 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease
Chheuong Seopheap / CPP / CPP Senator / Disputed Land / economic land concession / ELCs / Farm Land / Kbal Trach commune / land activists / land conflicts / land disputes / Land-grabbing / Lao Mengkhim / Pheapimex / Pheapimex Company / protests / Pursat / Pursat Province / Pursat Provincial Court / villagers

Two days before a land activist’s scheduled sentencing, about 400 people affected by land grabs demonstrated at Pursat Provincial Court in support of the man who frequently protests against the Pheap Imex Company. ... About 12,000 families are now involved in land disputes around a Pheap ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013070966735/National/hundreds-demonstrate-on-activist-s-behalf.html

Homes, Trees Destroyed, Villagers Say

31 May 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
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

Villagers Seize Trucks in Protest

28 May 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Social development
agro-industry / Boeung Char commune / Community Representative / deforestation / Disputed Land / ELCs / eviction / Farm Land / Forest / Illegal poaching / Kompong Cham / Kompong Cham Province / Korea / Korean company / kratie / Kratie Province / land conflict / Land dispute / Land protest / Land-grabbing / protests / Sam No / Sambor district / Sambor District Governor / Seng Sotha / Stung Treng / Stung Treng Province / Think Biotech / Think Biotech Timber Company / timber / villagers

More than 300 protesters seized two company trucks outside the Kratie office of Korean-owned timber company Think Biotech Co yesterday as protests by villagers who allege land-grabbing continued for a second day. ... “We have seized the company’s two trucks to ask the company to come ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052865873/National/villagers-seize-trucks-in-protest.html

Arrests Threatened In Ratanakkiri

15 May 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crime and law enforcement / Economic land concessions and plantations / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Public land lease / Social development
Adhoc / Adhoc Senior Investigator Chan Saveth / Company 72 / deforestation / ELCs / ethnic Jarai / ethnic Jarai villagers / ethnic minorities / evictions / Farm Land / forced evictions / Forest / forest clearing / Forestry Administration / Land rights / Lom village’s Forestry Protection Committee Leader / Lom Villagers / Men Sarun Co Ltd / O’Yadav district / O’Yadav District Governor Dork Sar / Paknhai commune / protected area / protected forest / protests / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Sav Finh / Vietnamese company / Vietnamese Company 72 / villagers

Provincial authorities in Ratanakkiri have warned ethnic Jarai villagers that they will be arrested if they continue to stop bulldozers belonging to a Vietnamese company from clearing forest in O’Yadav district’s Paknhai commune, community leaders said yesterday. Sav Finh, leader of Lom village’s forestry protection committee, ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051565625/National/arrests-threatened-in-ratanakkiri.html

Cambodia's turf war

24 December 2012
The Phnom Penh Post
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease
Adhoc / Arab Spring / Boeung Kak Lake / Borei Keila / Cambodian Senate / CPP officials / Farm Land / Finmap / Finnish Organization / Koh Kong / Kratie Province / Land Administration Sub-Sector Program (LASSP) / land disputes / Land-grabbing / land-titling volunteers / Ly Yong Phat / Myanmar / Phan Imex / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Rights group / Sam Rainsy Party / Sugar Plantation / Thpong district / TTY

After 28 years in the capital, eating like "a king" and enjoying the perks one receives as the son of high-ranking CPP officials, Sophal's* move to the countryside was as jarring as it was eye-opening. Until the day in June when he traded his designer threads ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2012122460443/National/cambodia-s-turf-war.html

Complaint over violence

4 August 2011
The Phnom Penh Post
Agriculture and fishing / Economy and commerce / Human rights / Social development
AK-47 / Cambodia / Cassava / Chea Sim / Cheam Yeap / Farm Land / Grass / Heng Samrin / Human Rights Commission for Complaint and Observation / Hun Sen / Kampong Speu Province / Kang Heang / Master International Group Co Ltd / National Assembly / Phnom Penh / Plantations / Police / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Sau Pom / violence

Twenty-nine community representatives from Kampong Speu’s Phnom Sruoch district travelled in person to the National Assembly building in Phnom Penh yesterday to file a complaint against provincial governor Kang Heang and other officials, accusing them of “robbing a total of 950 hectares of farm land”. ...

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