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Villagers occupy land in stand-off
- Released Date: 25-May-2017
Police yesterday confronted more than 200 villagers in Svay Rieng province as they tried to occupy land at the centre of a long-running dispute with a development company.
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Banteay Meanchey villagers seek dispute resolution
- Released Date: 24-May-2017
Almost 100 people from Boeung Snor village gathered at Banteay Meancheys Provincial Hall yesterday, demanding that provincial authorities resolve a 13-year-old dispute involving land promised to a group of Khmer Rouge defectors by the government in 1
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Intervention sought in land dispute
- Released Date: 23-May-2017
Claiming that district authorities destroyed their crops with bulldozers in February to evict them from their land, villagers representing 25 families from Oddar Meancheys Anlong Veng district yesterday petitioned the National Assembly to grant them
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Land Victims Blocked From Delivering Petition to National Assembly
- Released Date: 23-May-2017
At least 30 villagers from Oddar Meanchey province who say their land is being encroached upon were blocked by Daun Penh district authorities on Monday as they attempted to march to the National Assembly to deliver a petition asking for the premiers
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Land dispute villagers told not to march in Phnom Penh
- Released Date: 23-May-2017
Security guards in Phnom Penh yesterday stopped villagers from Oddar Meanchey province from marching to submit a petition to the government.
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Farmers claim farmland neglected
- Released Date: 23-May-2017
More than 500 villagers in Svay Rieng province are demanding access to local farmland following years of inactivity by a company given favourable conditions to develop it. Tiev Saron, an Ampil commune chief in Romeas Hek district, said NK Venture was
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Villagers stopped en route to capital
- Released Date: 19-May-2017
Nearly 300 villagers from Kampong Speu were intercepted by district police yesterday while departing for Phnom Penh to submit a petition seeking Prime Minister Hun Sens cabinets intervention in a seven-year-long land dispute with a sugar company.
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Kompong Speu Police Stop Petitioners From Reaching Capital
- Released Date: 19-May-2017
Authorities in Kompong Speu province yesterday stopped about 200 local residents from driving to Phnom Penh to petition Prime Minister Hun Sens cabinet over sugarcane plantations they say stole their land, telling the petitioners they were increasing
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Court speaks out over Hun family land row
- Released Date: 10-May-2017
Banteay Meanchey provincial court has issued a statement denying any wrongdoing after a land dispute involving Prime Minister Hun Sens family turned into a public row with one of the countrys top policemen.
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Borei Keila residents rally at developers home
- Released Date: 09-May-2017
Around 20 Borei Keila residents gathered outside Phanimex owner Suy Sophans residence yesterday asking her to resolve their land dispute in which they have yet to be offered compensation.
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Hun Sens brother accuses senior cop of abusing power
- Released Date: 09-May-2017
The deputy chief of the National Police has denied threatening the Prime Ministers brother over a land dispute in Poipet, Banteay Meanchey province.
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Roadside families protest at City Hall
- Released Date: 05-May-2017
Nearly 100 residents living along a stretch of land running from a railway in Boeung Kak to National Road 5 have gathered again outside City Hall to demand information about the development of a new road threatening to destroy their homes.
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