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Cham Muslims Protest Governments Planned Road Beside Mosque
- Released Date: 23-May-2016
About 200 Cham Muslims turned out to the Al-Serkal Mosque near the old Boeng Kak lake in Phnom Penh on Friday to protest a controversial road that the government plans to build through the mosques land.
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World Bank to re-engage after five-year absence
- Released Date: 23-May-2016
The World Bank has approved $130 million in developmental aid aimed at reducing poverty in Cambodia, signalling its first direct re-engagement with the Kingdom since it left in protest in 2011 after one of the largest forceful evictions led by the go
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Families in Land Dispute With Sugar Firm Reach $500 Deal
- Released Date: 19-May-2016
More than 300 families in Kompong Speu province this week signed a deal with Senator Ly Yong Phats Phnom Penh Sugar Company aimed at ending their long-running land dispute, though several of the families have yet to agree on compensation.
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World Bank to Vote on Ending Punitive 5-Year Funding Freeze
- Released Date: 19-May-2016
The World Banks board of directors could vote today to renew a project for landless families in Cambodia that has run into major problems, a move that would effectively lift a five-year freeze on lending its own money to the country in protest over f
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Kampong Speu families offered redress in Phnom Penh Sugar dispute
- Released Date: 19-May-2016
Following a years-long campaign by land rights activists and NGOs, Phnom Penh Sugar has finally offered compensation to families displaced by its Kampong Speu sugar plantation, although not everyone is impressed.
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Koh Kong Families Reach Agreement With UDG
- Released Date: 18-May-2016
About 100 additional families have accepted compensation packages from Union Development Group (UDG) to relocate and make way for the massive development project the Chinese firm is building along the coast of Koh Kong province, according to the E
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Four sentenced for roles in Preah Vihear ELC protest
- Released Date: 18-May-2016
The Preah Vihear Provincial Court yesterday sentenced four men for burning a contentious fence during a 2014 protest against an economic land concession (ELC) in Kulen district held by the FP Malaysia (Cambodia) Plantation.
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Land titling to start on Chroy Changvar
- Released Date: 17-May-2016
Land rights groups have cautiously welcomed an announcement that, beginning tomorrow, plots would start to be measured and land titles assigned to those who will be affected by the controversial Chroy Changvar Satellite City.
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Try Pheaps ‘Canceled ELCs Back on the Books
- Released Date: 17-May-2016
An official sub-decree signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen last month shows that wealthy and well-connected timber baron Try Pheap never handed back his two government-granted concessions in Virachey National Park as the Environment Ministry claimed he
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Protesters Hinder Land Titling In Kompong Speu Over Fishing Rights
- Released Date: 16-May-2016
Officials in Kompong Speu province have had to suspend their efforts to grant private land titles over part of a 40-hectare reservoir dating back to the Khmer Rouge in the face of a protest mounted by more than 100 locals afraid of losing their fishi
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Siem Reap shuffle not a punishment: ministry
- Released Date: 13-May-2016
The minister of land management, urban planning and construction has denied that the removal of a senior Siem Reap official was intended to hasten the resolution of land disputes.
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Families ask for clarity on airport plan
- Released Date: 11-May-2016
Representatives of 531 families potentially affected by Phnom Penh International Airports expansion yesterday asked the Council of Ministers to speed up resolution of the land dispute, which has languished for four years already.
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