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Final White Building Holdouts Sell Their Apartment Units
- Released Date: 17-Jul-2017
The demolition of Phnom Penhs dilapidated White Building is on track to begin today after the final seven holdouts agreed to sell their share of the housing block to its new developer over the weekend, according to a Land Management Ministry official
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Government Rejects 11th-Hour Reprieve for Sesan Dam Families
- Released Date: 14-Jul-2017
An official in Stung Treng province said there was no way to grant a last-minute reprieve requested on Thursday by villagers whose homes could be flooded within days once testing of the Lower Sesan II hydropower dam begins on Saturday.
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Stung Treng villagers seek delay in closing dam
- Released Date: 13-Jul-2017
Two days before the doors of the Lower Sesan II dam are slated to close for a test run, representatives of more than a hundred ethnic minority families in Stung Treng province yesterday appealed to the government to delay the closure to allow them mo
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Demolition derby: Preparing the White Building
- Released Date: 13-Jul-2017
The Land Management Ministry and Japanese firm Arakawa have started marking off vacated sections of the White Building and disconnecting its utilities, with a ministry official saying he was confident the fewer than 10 families who have so far refuse
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White Building demolition soon to begin
- Released Date: 12-Jul-2017
The Ministry of Land Management yesterday announced that the decades-old White Building in the capital will be demolished starting July 17 in order to make way for a new 21-storey structure.
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Stung Treng prepares for bridge dismantling
- Released Date: 11-Jul-2017
Stung Treng provincial authorities have vowed to demolish the Sre Pok Bridge ahead of the testing of the Lower Sesan II dam – which will submerge a number of villages – and warned that police will be deployed should villagers protest.
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Government Prepares Plan for Sesan Dam Holdouts
- Released Date: 11-Jul-2017
Officials in Stung Treng province say they will have boats and trucks at the ready to evacuate a pair of villages where residents are refusing to heed warnings that their homes will flood when testing of the nearby Lower Sesan II hydropower dam begin
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Sesan residents settle on new relocation site
- Released Date: 10-Jul-2017
Over a hundred families in Stung Treng provinces Srekor and Kbal Romea communes said yesterday that they have located around 2,000 hectares to relocate to when a scheduled test run for the Lower Sesan II dam this week leaves their villages flooded.
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Land disputes increase: report
- Released Date: 07-Jul-2017
There were 56 new land disputes across the country last year, adding to 314 unresolved case at the end of 2015, a report issued yesterday by the NGO Forum on Cambodia says, marking the highest number of new cases since the group started monitoring in
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NGO Finds Spike in New, Settled Land Disputes Last Year
- Released Date: 07-Jul-2017
The number of settled and newly reported land disputes more than doubled last year, according to a new report by the NGO Forum, which called the trend a sign the government was making a real—if politically calculated—push to deal with the issue.
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Call to expedite land dispute cases
- Released Date: 07-Jul-2017
Civil society organisations have urged the government, courts and relevant parties to resolve land disputes more quickly, as a statistical analysis revealed a sharp rise in new cases.
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Supreme Court Orders Eco-Activists Appeal to Be Reheard
- Released Date: 06-Jul-2017
Environmental activist Ven Vorn has been given a second chance to have an illegal logging conviction overturned after the Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered his case sent back to the Appeal Court for review.
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