• Official Questioned in Mosque Road, Condo Defamation Case

    Official Questioned in Mosque Road, Condo Defamation Case

    • Released Date: 11-May-2016

    Social Affairs Ministry Secretary of State Ahmad Yahya was questioned in court on Tuesday for allegedly defaming Othsman Hassan, his counterpart in the Labor Ministry, in relation to plans for a road to be constructed on land belonging to a Phnom Pen

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  • Serial ‘land grabber put on new blacklist

    Serial ‘land grabber put on new blacklist

    • Released Date: 09-May-2016

    Businesses and individuals with a history of improper land dealings are to be added to a “blacklist” barring them from registering or transferring land, according to a Facebook post published by Minister of Land Management Chea Sophara on Friday.

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  • Protests planned for Preah Vihear sugar plants opening

    Protests planned for Preah Vihear sugar plants opening

    • Released Date: 19-Apr-2016

    Preah Vihears deputy governor has vowed not to let protesters near Prime Minister Hun Sen as he cuts the ribbon on a $360 million sugar mill in Tbeng Meanchey district today.

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  • New minister vows to tackle land registration

    New minister vows to tackle land registration

    • Released Date: 06-Apr-2016

    The new minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, Chea Sophara, should strive to resolve the countrys land disputes and expand land registration services, his outgoing predecessor Im Chhun Lim said during a handover ceremony yeste

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  • Sar Kheng Urges New Minister to Reconcile Land Disputes

    Sar Kheng Urges New Minister to Reconcile Land Disputes

    • Released Date: 06-Apr-2016

    Interior Minister Sar Kheng urged the new minister of land management, urban planning and development, Chea Sophara, to cut down on land disputes involving poor and indigenous families during a handover ceremony yesterday, casting a wary eye toward t

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  • Emotional reactions studied

    Emotional reactions studied

    • Released Date: 04-Apr-2016

    Cambodians are more likely than some other nationalities to associate sadness and fear with anxiety and satisfaction with acquisition, according to a new psychological study.

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  • Residents, Activists Call for City to Stop Filling In Lakes

    Residents, Activists Call for City to Stop Filling In Lakes

    • Released Date: 01-Apr-2016

    Protesters from Phnom Penhs lakeside communities spent an hour facing off with police on Thursday on a road on the former Boeng Kak lake before turning around and taking a different route to the National Assembly, where they demanded an end to the in

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  • Communities unite to oppose lake filling

    Communities unite to oppose lake filling

    • Released Date: 01-Apr-2016

    More than 500 villagers from 40 communities across the country gathered yesterday at Boeung Kak in Phnom Penh to launch a campaign against the filling of lakes for commercial development projects.

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  • Pursat village leaders arrested for selling state land

    Pursat village leaders arrested for selling state land

    • Released Date: 31-Mar-2016

    A village chief and his assistant accused of fraudulently selling 2 hectares of state-owned forest in Pursat province have been arrested and sent to the Veal Veng district Forestry Administration headquarters.

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  • Land Conflict Victims Call for a Stop to Lake Filling

    Land Conflict Victims Call for a Stop to Lake Filling

    • Released Date: 31-Mar-2016

    More than 300 protesters from about 40 communities affected by land disputes throughout the country launched the Free the Lakes campaign yesterday, marching through the capital to the National Assembly accompanied by monks before submitting a petitio

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  • Preah Vihear villagers allege rubber company retaliation

    Preah Vihear villagers allege rubber company retaliation

    • Released Date: 31-Mar-2016

    Villagers from Preah Vihears Kulen district, where last week two rubber company guard posts were torched, yesterday alleged security guards from the same company had looted their homes and threatened to burn them.

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  • Villagers ask PM to intervene in Battambang land dispute

    Villagers ask PM to intervene in Battambang land dispute

    • Released Date: 31-Mar-2016

    About 160 families from three communes in Battambang province yesterday submitted a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sens cabinet and the Ministry of Justice asking the government to intervene in a long-running land dispute.

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