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Borei Keila, officials fail to agree
- Released Date: 25-Dec-2017
Residents of the capitals Borei Keila neighbourhood met with district authorities yesterday in an attempt to resolve a long-lasting land dispute, but neither side appeared to soften their demands.
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New eviction deadline for Borei Keila holdouts
- Released Date: 11-Dec-2017
Villagers in Phnom Penhs Borei Keila community have for years fought against resettlement plans that would pave the way for major construction close to the Olympic Stadium. Now they have less than two weeks to either accept compensation or leave empt
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Four arrested as land dispute rumbles on
- Released Date: 06-Nov-2017
Four men were charged and sent to Preah Vihear Provincial Prison on Saturday for allegedly cultivating more than 100,000 square metres of land at the centre of a messy three-party land dispute.
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Pressure kept on for land dispute solutions
- Released Date: 11-Oct-2017
The Ministers of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, Economy and Finance, Environment, and representatives of the Agriculture Ministry, European Union, and civil society organisations, met with provincial authorities yesterday to discu
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Land disputes report due this week
- Released Date: 09-Oct-2017
Four families have received a resolution in their land dispute with a sugar companys economic land concession plantation in Preah Vihear province.
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Kampong Thom gets community forests
- Released Date: 05-Oct-2017
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries yesterday announced the establishment of two community forest areas over 4,500 hectares in Kampong Thom provinces Santuk district.
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Families in land dispute repaid
- Released Date: 13-Sep-2017
Three families in Kandal provinces Saang district were offered compensation and new land after having been forcibly evicted last Friday following a Supreme Court ruling.
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NGO ‘cheated land row villagers
- Released Date: 04-Sep-2017
Almost 100 villagers from Kampong Speu province have filed an Interior Ministry complaint against the NGO Equitable Cambodia, accusing the organisation of cheating locals over a dispute with the Phnom Penh Sugar Company
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Evicted Kampot Villagers Rally at Land Ministry to Settle ELC
- Released Date: 24-Aug-2017
More than 150 people representing 308 families recently evicted in a land dispute involving a Kampot province land concession assembled outside the Land Management Ministry in Phnom Penh on Wednesday in a last-ditch effort to return to their land.
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PM orders governor to resolve Boeung Kak dispute
- Released Date: 23-Aug-2017
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday ordered the Phnom Penh governor to speed up the process of ending Boeung Kak Lake land dispute, which has dragged on for nearly a decade and has seven families still awaiting a resolution.
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Cambodian Villagers Protest Decade-Old Land Grab Case in Koh Kong Province
- Released Date: 22-Aug-2017
About 100 villagers from southwestern Cambodias Koh Kong province clashed on Tuesday with security forces in Phnom Penh during a protest over a decade-long land dispute with two sugar companies, a spokesmen for the residents said.
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UN Rights Envoy Attends Vigil Marking One-Year Imprisonment of Cambodia Activist
- Released Date: 15-Aug-2017
A United Nations rights envoy met with activists involved in a long-running dispute at a lake community in Cambodias capital Phnom Penh Tuesday as they marked the one-year anniversary of the jailing of one of their leaders.Rhona Smith, the U.N. speci
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