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Phnom Penh Governor Says Lake Families to Get Land Titles

10 August 2011
The Cambodia Daily
Land / Phnom Penh
Boeng Kak / Cambodian Government / Center on Housing Rights and Evictions / CPP / development site / forced evictions / Housing Rights Task Force / Kep Chuktema / Land titles / maps / Phnom Penh City Hall / Phnom Penh Governor / Phnom Penh Municipality / Police / Prime Minister Hun Sen / protests / Real estate / rights groups / Rolando Modina / Sia Phearum / sub-decree / Tep Vanny / World Bank

For the first time since Phnom Penh municipality slated some 4,000 mostly poor families for forced eviction in 2007 to make way for a CPP senator’s controversial real estate project, City Hall yesterday promised them what they have always wanted most: titles to their land. ...

http://www.camnet.com.kh/cambodia.daily/

World Bank Halts Funds Over Evictions

9 August 2011
The Cambodia Daily
Aid and development / Economy and commerce / Multilateral development assistance / World Bank
aid / Annette Dixon / Annette Dixon World Bank Country Director / Boeng Kak Lake / Boeng Kak Lake residents / Cambodia / Chinese / Council of Ministers / CPP / CPP Senator Lao Meng Khin / EC / Erdos Hong Jun Investment / European Commission / eviction / evictions / forced evictions / Funding / funds / Government / Government officials / Housing Rights Groups / Independent Report / land / Land Law / land sector / Land titles / land titling / Lao Meng Khin / legal obligations / Lending / loan / on-site housing / Phay Siphan / Phay Siphan Council of Ministers spokesman / Phnom Penh / Rafael Dochao Moreno / Real estate / Resettlement / Senator Lao Meng Khin / Shukaku Inc / Washington / World Bank

The World Bank has frozen funding to Cambodia, making good on its threat in March to reconsider aid levels to Cambodia in response to the ongoing eviction of thousands of Phnom Penh families from Boeng Kak lake, a Bank official confirmed yesterdaySome 3,000 families have ...

Villagers Block Rubber Company From Forest

23 July 2011
The Cambodia Daily
Agriculture and fishing / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Protected areas / Protected forest / Rubber
Adhoc / Cambodia / demonstration / Land rights / Land titles / machinery / Mittapheap Rubber Company / protests / rubber / Svay Rieng / Svay Rieng Province / villagers

60 villagers in Svay Rieng province demonstrated to prevent the Mittapheap Rubber Company from moving its machinery into the area. The company has plans to clear 500 hectares of land in what the villagers claim is their protected community forest. Adhoc is investigating the claims ...

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