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Preah Sihanouk land dispute residents urged to provide evidence
- Released Date: 04-Sep-2019
Twenty-three residents of Preah Sihanouk province’s Bit Traing commune in Prey Nop district, who are entrenched in an eight-year land dispute, were urged on Wednesday by the Ministry of Justice to submit legal documents as proof of ownership to Preah
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Mondulkiri community objects to land demarcation
- Released Date: 12-Dec-2019
Representatives of the indigenous community in Mondulkiri province on Wednesday submitted three petitions to voice their objection against the planting of stone markers around the Doh Kramom mountain area by provincial officials last week.
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Pursat authorities issue one-week eviction notice to 31 families occupying protected land
- Released Date: 14-Nov-2019
The Pursat Provincial Environment Department has issued a one-week deadline to more than 30 families to remove their dwellings, livestock and crops from a protected area in Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary which they illegally occupied.
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Officials demolish 49 illegal huts in Siem Reap
- Released Date: 17-Nov-2019
After the authorities on Friday and Saturday dismantled 49 of some 1,000 huts which had been built illegally on forest land in Siem Reap’s Phnom Kulen National Park, Banteay Srei district governor Khim Finan said on Sunday that a hunt was on for a gr
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Koh Kong authorities probe land sale in Botum Sakor National Park
- Released Date: 03-Sep-2019
The Koh Kong Provincial Administration is probing a news report that a private company had colluded with the local authorities to buy 40ha in the Botum Sakor National Park.
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Land ministry yet to respond to Kandal official forgery case
- Released Date: 30-Aug-2019
The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction has not yet responded in the case of Nouv Sat, a land official at Kandal provincial department of land management who is suspected of colluding to sell 83ha of people’s land.
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KRP investigates land grab and abuse of power cases
- Released Date: 06-Oct-2019
Khmer Rise Party (KRP) president Sok Sovann Vathana Sabung and a working group on Sunday began investigating 17 cases of conspiracy to grab land and abuses of power committed by government officials.
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Land allotted for Kampong Chhnang boat people must be rented
- Released Date: 12-Dec-2019
Kampong Chhnang deputy provincial governor Sun Sovannarith reaffirmed that the 40ha the provincial authorities allocated to Vietnamese boat people is Cambodian national Ros Chamroeun’s private land.
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Senior official accused of land grab
- Released Date: 21-Oct-2019
A member of the Supreme Consultation Forum is set to forward to Prime Minister Hun Sen, the complaints of more than 1,000 families against a military lieutenant general over alleged land grabbing in Kampong Thom province’s Stoung district.
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Government to spend $4 million on Lased II
- Released Date: 29-Aug-2019
The government will spend some $4 million on the Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development Project Phase II (Lased II) to benefit almost 600 families in Prasat Balang district’s Doung commune in Kampong Thom province.
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Officials again clarify relocation of Tonle Sap lake residents
- Released Date: 13-Dec-2019
Government officials have once again addressed the public to clarify a move to relocate thousands of people living on the Tonle Sap lake in Kampong Chhnang province to a 40-hectare plot of land.
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Savuth summoned over Mondulkiri ELCs
- Released Date: 03-Sep-2019
The Mondulkiri Provincial Court has summoned Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries secretary of state Chan Savuth to appear on September 12 for questioning over his alleged granting of economic land concessions (ELCs).
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