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Residents fear bridge loss
- Released Date: 30-Jun-2017
Nearly 200 villagers from three communes in Stung Treng province protested yesterday at Sre Pok bridge to demand that authorities stop dismantling it when the Sesan dam sluice gate closes next month.
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Opposition Official Charged Over Land Clearing in Preah Sihanouk
- Released Date: 29-Jun-2017
After failing to respond to two court summonses issued last year, a former commune official from the legacy Sam Rainsy Party in Sihanoukville was charged this week with inciting people to clear state land—a claim his wife denied.
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Chinese firm builds fence around Koh Kong ELC while families refuse to move
- Released Date: 28-Jun-2017
Chinese firm Union Development Group (UDG) surrounded its government-granted economic land in Koh Kong provinces Kiri Sakor district with a 900-metre-long fence last week, burdening the four families there who refuse to relocate and threatening their
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Corrupt officials admit selling government land for profit
- Released Date: 28-Jun-2017
The head of the Preah Vihear Provincial Department of Mines and Energy admitted to illegally selling a plot of government land for $62,400 in profit at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday, but called for a lighter sentence, claiming he used the
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Government eyeing low-cost housing
- Released Date: 28-Jun-2017
An estimated 7.9 million people in Cambodia will be living in urban areas by 2030, up from 4.5 million in 2014, with officials at a forum on national housing yesterday announcing ambitious plans to meet the demand for some 55,000 affordable new homes
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Illegal building at Angkor site must go, says Unesco
- Released Date: 27-Jun-2017
The Unesco representative in Cambodia has expressed support for the Apsara Authoritys actions to prevent the spread of illegal constructions in the Angkor Archaeological Park.
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Land feud families plead for road
- Released Date: 26-Jun-2017
Four families in Koh Kong provinces Kiri Sakor district urged their local authorities yesterday to step in and reopen a road to their house after it was closed by a tourist site developer.
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Kandal families allege official intimidation
- Released Date: 23-Jun-2017
Sixteen families in Kandal have accused a purported Interior Ministry official of sending soldiers to intimidate them to take their land, though the official denied the claims and said no such dispute existed at all.
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Environmental Campaigners Appeal Goes to the Supreme Court
- Released Date: 22-Jun-2017
An activist allied with environmental NGO Mother Nature on Wednesday pleaded with the Supreme Court to overturn an illegal logging conviction he received for cutting wood to build a community center.
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Kratie protesters negotiate road access deal
- Released Date: 22-Jun-2017
About 200 villagers in Kratie province yesterday blocked a road leading through a Vietnamese-owned rubber plantation to protest the companys decision to limit their travel across the land, successfully negotiating a new agreement.
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Activist appeals sentence
- Released Date: 22-Jun-2017
An environmental activist from Koh Kongs Areng Valley yesterday appeared before the Supreme Court to appeal a suspended one-year prison sentence for illegally “collecting forest products”.
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Villagers near Sesan Dam warned to brace for floods
- Released Date: 22-Jun-2017
Villagers living near the Lower Sesan ll Hydropower Dam in Stung Treng province have been warned to expect flooding in their villages soon as the operators of the dam close its doors for technical tests.
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