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Kampong Speu vendors protest bus station move
- Released Date: 01-Jul-2016
About 50 vendors operating out of Kampong Speu bus station yesterday delivered a petition to the Ministry of Urban Planning asking that plans to relocate the bus station to make way for the construction of flats be reconsidered.
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Activist Yorm Bopha again found guilty
- Released Date: 29-Jun-2016
Prominent Boeung Kak land rights activist Yorm Bopha has again been found guilty of organising the beating of two motodops in 2012, this time by the Court of Appeal, but will not face any additional jail time.
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Court Suspends Land Activists Jail Sentence
- Released Date: 29-Jun-2016
The Court of Appeal on Tuesday upheld a three-year sentence against anti-eviction activist Yorm Bopha for a 2012 assault conviction, but she will not be returning to prison, with the court deciding to suspend the remainder of her prison time.
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Most ELC Disputes Still Unresolved
- Released Date: 29-Jun-2016
More than two-thirds of the 158 land disputes triggered by large-scale plantations over the past two decades have yet to be fully resolved, according to a new report by the NGO Forum on Cambodia.
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Soldiers Claim General Sold Off School Land
- Released Date: 27-Jun-2016
The Ministry of Defense and Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) sent two teams to Siem Reap City over the weekend to investigate a high-profile land dispute between a senior general and a unit of soldiers, officials said on Sunday.
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Capital residents seek info on new road plan
- Released Date: 24-Jun-2016
Residents of Russey Keo district delivered a petition to Phnom Penh City Hall yesterday demanding a public forum be held to discuss plans to transform a railway line in Kilometre 6 commune into a road.
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Troops close ranks over Siem Reap land
- Released Date: 23-Jun-2016
A group of 81 soldiers in Siem Reap province have appealed to Defense Minister Tea Banh to step in and block alleged attempts by their former commander, a retired three-star general, to carve up the land housing the units base for his relatives and o
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Five questioned over Preah Vihear land dispute
- Released Date: 23-Jun-2016
About 200 people gathered outside Preah Vihear Provincial Court yesterday to show solidarity with five villagers being questioned over allegations of vandalism committed during a land dispute protest.
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Community reps claim ministry rejected sugar ELC petition
- Released Date: 22-Jun-2016
Representatives from communities in four provinces evicted to make way for sugar plantations alleged during a press conference yesterday they were barred from delivering petitions to the Ministry of Land Management.
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Families Evicted by Sugarcane Farms Appeal in Phnom Penh
- Released Date: 22-Jun-2016
Villagers representing more than 1,000 families that accuse sugarcane plantations around the country of stealing their land gathered in Phnom Penh on Tuesday to once again call on the government to help.
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Families accused of grabbing lake land in Kampot
- Released Date: 17-Jun-2016
Several prominent families in Kampots Banteay Meas district have been accused of grabbing reclaimed land from the edges of the Boeung Touk Meas lake.
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Returnees on UDG Site to Be Evicted
- Released Date: 16-Jun-2016
The Environment Ministry plans to evict some 200 families in Koh Kong province who last month moved back to the site of their former homes on a $3.8-billion Chinese-owned development in protest over compensation, a ministry spokesman said on Wednesda
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