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Villagers told to show land titles, or else
- Released Date: 30-Jun-2020
The Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries has requested citizens claiming land in the O’Thma forestry restoration station area in Preah Sihanouk province to submit their ownership documents to the district Forestry Administration before Jul
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Former justice official busted for land crimes
- Released Date: 29-Jun-2020
A Phnom Penh Municipal Court investigating judge has issued temporary detention warrants for former Ministry of Justice under-secretary of state Seng Sovannara and three accomplices. They were arrested by National Police on Friday. The men are alle
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Anti-Corruption Unit probes oknha over land case in Battambang
- Released Date: 29-Jun-2020
Oknha Sorng Thorn, the owner of 5,000ha which covers a fourth of Koas Krala district in Battambang province, was taken in for questioning by the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Saturday in regards to corruption allegations. In a move that civil socie
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Bank gives $93M for landless poor
- Released Date: 29-Jun-2020
The World Bank approved a $93 million credit for the Cambodia Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development scheme on Friday. The credit is slated to help improve the security of land tenure, infrastructure access and agricultural and social
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Koh Kong authorities resolve 80 percent of UDG land dispute
- Released Date: 15-Jun-2020
Koh Kong provincial authorities said yesterday they have resolved the grievances of 1,000 families involved in a long-running land dispute with Chinese corporation Union Development Group, noting talks are ongoing to resolve the issue with 184 other
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Yet again, Phnom Penh residents say OCIC is snatching their land
- Released Date: 16-Jun-2020
Sixty-five families living on Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva peninsula say their lives are in limbo with tycoon Pung Khieu Se’s Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) trying to seize their land to build a $3-billion satellite city
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Most land disputes in Pursat province settled
- Released Date: 11-Jun-2020
“So far, 23 families have been embroiled in land disputes. Of them, only 15 families remain in dispute while the others have accepted the provincial administration’s mediation,” he said.
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Journalist summoned over ‘inciting’ report on Ratanakkiri land dispute
- Released Date: 16-Jun-2020
A Ratanakkiri province-based TV3 reporter has requested an extension to a court summons he was issued last week which stemmed from a story he covered about a land dispute at an abandoned Ratanakkiri airport site. The summons, issued by deputy prosec
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Court charges man for allegedly instigating Kampong Thom land grab
- Released Date: 19-Jun-2020
A man was charged and detained by Kampong Thom Provincial Court yesterday over allegations of inciting villagers to grab more than 200 hectares of state-protected flooded forestland in the province.
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Five sued for clearing land in Oral sanctuary
- Released Date: 17-Jun-2020
The director of Kampong Speu’s provincial Forestry Administration and environmental watchdog ACNCIPO have sued five people in the provincial court for allegedly clearing 112ha of the Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary in Sre Kin village.
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Officials deny stealing land certificates in Pailin, made to swear
- Released Date: 10-Jun-2020
More than 40 officers from the Pailin Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction Department were made to swear before the statue of Yeay Yat on Monday that they had not misplaced 21 land titles.
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Sihanoukville residents protest new road
- Released Date: 18-May-2020
A group of 162 families from Commune IV’s Village 4 in Sihanoukville on Monday protested the building of a new road by the authorities, claiming that it affected their houses. As part of the protest, they also called on the authorities to negotiate
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