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Villagers push city on mooted road buildout
- Released Date: 16-Mar-2017
About 70 community members living along the railway tracks in Phnom Penhs Tuol Kork district asked City Hall for clarification on City Governor Pa Socheatvongs visit to the site in February and mention of a potential road expansion that, if carried o
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Villagers affected by dam meet with government officials
- Released Date: 10-Mar-2017
Villagers from Stung Treng whose homes stand to be flooded by the Lower Sesan II dam met with representatives of the Ministry of Mines and Energy at an NGO Forum-sponsored meeting in Phnom Penh yesterday, in hopes of establishing a dialogue towards a
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Deadline extended for holdouts at Borei Keila
- Released Date: 08-Mar-2017
Phnom Penh City Hall yesterday extended by 30 days a two-month deadline for Borei Keila holdouts to accept compensation packages, adding that it would not be responsible for any actions taken after that.
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Chroy Changvar residents protest city ultimatum
- Released Date: 07-Mar-2017
Some 70 Chroy Changvar residents set to be displaced by a massive development took their grievances to Phnom Penh City Hall yesterday.
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Agriculture Ministry stands up for sawmill
- Released Date: 15-Feb-2017
The Ministry of Agriculture in a press release on Sunday defended its decision to grant a sawmill licence to a company that has previously been implicated in illegal logging.
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PM asked to fix land disputes
- Released Date: 15-Feb-2017
Two groups of protesters were stopped by Daun Penh security forces yesterday from handing over petitions to the Prime Minister, with one incident resulting in four injuries.
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Government plugs rubber switch
- Released Date: 15-Feb-2017
The government is seeking intrepid smallholder farmers to pilot a project that would transform 6,000 hectares of cropland in two provinces into a patchwork of small rubber plantations.
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Agriculture Ministry stands up for sawmill
- Released Date: 14-Feb-2017
The Ministry of Agriculture in a press release on Sunday defended its decision to grant a sawmill licence to a company that has previously been implicated in illegal logging.
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Calls for compensation as sand dredged for port
- Released Date: 14-Feb-2017
Fourteen families in Preah Sihanouk provinces Stung Hav district have lodged complaints about sand dredging and threatened to take matters into their own hands if they are not provided with $50,000 each in compensation from a company they accuse of d
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Kith Meng Backs Plans for Three Hydropower Dams
- Released Date: 03-Feb-2017
Kith Meng, one of the countrys wealthiest businessmen, is behind three proposed hydropower dams, the Council of Ministers has confirmed, including what would be the largest by far on the main stream of the Mekong River in Cambodia.
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More protests at Land Ministry
- Released Date: 03-Feb-2017
About 100 people representing nearly 200 families protested at the Ministry of Land Management in Phnom Penh yesterday, demanding the ministry expedite a solution to their land disputes with three sugarcane plantation companies in Koh Kong province.
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Boeung Kak: A Disastrous Decade
- Released Date: 03-Feb-2017
Ten years ago this week, Phnom Penh City Hall and the development firm Shukaku Inc announced an agreement to transform the Boeung Kak lake area into a sprawling mixed-use development. In the years following, thousands were evicted and a protest movem
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