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New trial set for Boeung Kak activist
- Released Date: 07-Jun-2016
Appeal Court prosecutor Nget Sarath has summoned the lawyer of well-known Boeung Kak land activist Yorm Bopha to appear on June 20 to defend her in a retrial of accusations that she ordered an assault on two motodops in 2012.
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New teams to settle land disputes announced
- Released Date: 06-Jun-2016
Newly appointed Minister of Land Management Chea Sophara last week established a working group comprising 27 four-man teams tasked with hastening the resolution of land disputes.
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Kampong Speu disputants ‘pressured to take sugar firm deal
- Released Date: 03-Jun-2016
Despite earlier statements by company representatives that $500 compensation packages being offered to land disputants at Ly Yong Phats Kampong Speu economic land concession (ELC) were negotiable, attendees of a meeting between company representative
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Equality Sought After Land Dispute
- Released Date: 03-Jun-2016
About 200 families gathered last week in a village in Koh Kongs Kiri Sakor district, demanding compensation for their removal from land to make way for a Chinese-owned Union Development Group (UDG) project in 2011.
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Deal to end Phnongs five-year land dispute
- Released Date: 03-Jun-2016
A community of ethnic Phnong people in Mondulkiris Keo Seima district has accepted a settlement from a Vietnamese rubber firm ending a five-year land dispute.
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Peninsula dwellers seek ministrys intervention
- Released Date: 03-Jun-2016
Representatives from six communities on the capitals Chroy Changvar peninsula yesterday petitioned the Land Management Ministry to intervene and stop the imminent clearing of their land by district authorities and development firm the Overseas Cambod
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Land dispute ‘task force to be established in Ratanakkiri
- Released Date: 02-Jun-2016
Senior Minister in charge of Special Missions Ly Thuch announced yesterday that a land dispute resolution task force will be created for Ratanakkiri province, although observers said the move was coming too late.
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Sale of Kandal stream decried, and denied
- Released Date: 02-Jun-2016
Hundreds of residents in two villages in Kandal province yesterday gathered to protest the alleged sale of 10 hectares of land containing a natural stream, and demanded that it be kept for collective use.
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Pagoda land decision draws protest
- Released Date: 01-Jun-2016
One hundred Kandal province villagers descended on the Supreme Court in Phnom Penh yesterday to protest a decision to hand 2 hectares of land long cultivated as part of their local pagoda to a group of soldiers.
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New Building, Broken Promises at Borei Keila
- Released Date: 01-Jun-2016
A decade ago, powerful businesswoman Suy Sophan promised to build 10 apartment blocks for residents of Phnom Penhs Borei Keila neighborhood who faced eviction to make way for her real estate project. She only built eight, leaving hundreds of resident
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Protest After Supreme Court Awards Pagoda Plot to Militia
- Released Date: 01-Jun-2016
Scores of angry villagers protested outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday after judges allegedly awarded a parcel of land in Kandal province to a private militia—overturning two earlier court decisions granting it to a local pagoda.
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Local official punched me, says Preah Vihear land disputant
- Released Date: 01-Jun-2016
The deputy governor of Preah Vihears Tbeng Meanchey district has been accused of punching a displaced ethnic Kuoy villager during a confrontation over land being cleared by Chinese sugar company Rui Feng.
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