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Borei Keila families get flats, payouts
- Released Date: 25-Jan-2016
Thirty-one evicted Borei Keila community families received flats and another four families got $15,000 buyouts on Saturday as part of a “lucky draw” organised to resolve their years-long land dispute.
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As Tents Come Down, Borei Keila Residents Accept Offers
- Released Date: 22-Jan-2016
Two days after a signing ceremony in Phnom Penhs Borei Keila neighborhood was shut down due to activists storming the event, more than 80 families have now signed compensation deals with City Hall as officials and residents have started dismantling m
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Cash tossed in for Borei Keila holdouts
- Released Date: 22-Jan-2016
Phnom Penh City Hall yesterday finished handing out compensation packages to 56 evicted Borei Keila families, and said it would acquiesce to demands by another group to receive cash in addition to houses at the Andong village resettlement site.
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Four Communities Band Together in Land Dispute Protest
- Released Date: 20-Jan-2016
Some 150 people representing hundreds of families claiming nearly 2,000 hectares of disputed land in Banteay Meanchey province joined together in Serei Saophoan City yesterday in a protest calling on the provincial governor to issue them long-awaited
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Borei Keila Ceremony Descends Into Chaos
- Released Date: 20-Jan-2016
A ceremony arranged by Phnom Penh officials to mark their final offers of compensation for hundreds of people who have spent years protesting their eviction from the Borei Keila neighborhood descended into chaos on Tuesday as activists stormed the me
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Borei Keila protesters shout down panel
- Released Date: 20-Jan-2016
Five shouting protesters yesterday morning shut down a meeting of the joint committee for housing solutions in Borei Keila before it could sign cash compensation deals with 56 evicted families.After a long and contentious land dispute, 56 families we
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Try Pheap Gets New ELC Amid Freeze, Governor Says
- Released Date: 19-Jan-2016
Timber magnate Try Pheap and businessman Lim Bunna were granted economic land concessions (ELCs) on property inside a wildlife sanctuary confiscated from two other companies for violating their government contracts, a provincial governor told a meeti
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Preah Vihear land disputants told to desist
- Released Date: 18-Jan-2016
Three community representatives, threatened with legal action by Preah Vihear provincial authorities on Friday, yesterday said they will continue to lead some 200 families in protest over disputed land in Choam Ksan districts Kantuot commune.
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Five Boeng Kak Families Ordered to Destroy Homes
- Released Date: 18-Jan-2016
Five families in Phnom Penhs embattled Boeng Kak neighborhood have been given 15 days to demolish parts of their homes that encroach on the citys land, according to an official order received by the residents on Friday.
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PM touts exemption for land bequests
- Released Date: 11-Jan-2016
The government has announced its intention to scrap a 4 per cent fee levied on the transfer of property when the transfer is being made as an inheritance.
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Villagers say SLC broker cheated them
- Released Date: 06-Jan-2016
Some 1,500 hectares in social land concessions granted to families in Stung Treng province are being illegally cleared and sold by the communitys land broker, according to locals and rights group Adhoc.
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Borei Keila evictees mark four-year anniversary
- Released Date: 04-Jan-2016
Around 50 residents from the displaced Borei Keila community held a ceremony yesterday to mark the fourth anniversary of their eviction.On January 3, 2012, police and security forces from the Phanimex company evicted hundreds families from the Borei
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