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Preah Vihear Villagers Fend Off Sugar Companys 10 Bulldozers
- Released Date: 06-Jan-2017
A group of villagers chased off 10 bulldozers belonging to the Ruifeng Sugar Company on Thursday on the fifth day of a standoff between an ethnic Kuy community and the Chinese firm trying to clear the land in Preah Vihear province.
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Villagers swat down 1.5-hectare resolution
- Released Date: 06-Jan-2017
The government offered almost 200 families 1.5 hectares each to resolve a land dispute with two sugar companies in Koh Kong province during a meeting yesterday, though the families demanded greater compensation.
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Singapore Could Face Legal Action Over Sand Importation
- Released Date: 05-Jan-2017
Environmental NGO Mother Nature has hired a Singaporean law firm to investigate alleged irregularities in the countrys importation of Cambodian sand, the organizations founder said on Wednesday.
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Minister Claims Land Disputes Over: ‘We Have Solved Them All
- Released Date: 05-Jan-2017
Environment Minister Say Sam Al on Wednesday repeated his claims that forest crimes and land disputes sparked by sprawling commercial farms run by wealthy businessmen and foreign corporations had decreased or were mostly over, claims that rights grou
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Koh Kong Protesters Submit Petitions to Hun Sen
- Released Date: 04-Jan-2017
Protesters from Koh Kong province embroiled in a decadelong land dispute submitted two petitions to government offices on Tuesday amid a stakeout of the capital that has been ongoing since last month.
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Fresh sand controversy
- Released Date: 02-Jan-2017
Cambodia exported more than 108,000 tonnes of sand to India in 36 separate shipments between 2013 and 2015, according to Indian customs data obtained yesterday, contradicting Cambodian customs data that show no sand being sent there at all.
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Villagers Block Firms Machinery
- Released Date: 29-Dec-2016
Nearly 150 people representing 440 families from Svay Rieng provinces Romeas Hek district protested yesterday and blocked machinery belonging to NK Venture, a company they claimed had gone to clear and take their land.
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Sugar crash
- Released Date: 27-Dec-2016
More than 170 representatives of 147 Koh Kong families calling for the governments intervention in their land disputes with two sugar concessions have threatened to march to the prime ministers cabinet office on Wednesday if a solution is not forthco
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Farmers Refuse to Go Home Without Solution
- Released Date: 27-Dec-2016
Families visiting Phnom Penh from Koh Kong province to protest their long-running land disputes with a trio of sugarcane plantations said on Monday that they were not going home until the government helped them secure acceptable settlements.
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A Struggle ‘on Chinese Land
- Released Date: 26-Dec-2016
Sitting on the edge of the dock, 68-year-old Vichay angrily pointed to three crumpled sheets of paper as he shuffled them around in his right hand.
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Workers walk out over bonuses, sacked leader
- Released Date: 16-Dec-2016
A scuffle with security guards yesterday ended the fourth straight day of protests at the First Gawon Apparel factory in the capitals Meanchey district, where about 300 workers have walked out over the firing of their union leader, who the factory sa
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Minister faces music on sand
- Released Date: 16-Dec-2016
Mines Minister Suy Sem could not give parliaments anti-corruption commission an acceptable explanation for why Cambodian customs data failed to note $750 million in sand exports that Singapore says it received, the committees chairman said after a he
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