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Pursat village chief sold land illegally, say police
- Released Date: 30-Mar-2016
District police in Pursats Veal Veng district have accused a village chief of selling 2 hectares of state-owned forest land to three men from Battambang province, who then proceeded to clear the land of all the trees.
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Police Block Meeting Between UN Envoy and Kuoy Villagers
- Released Date: 30-Mar-2016
Police in Preah Vihear province on Monday stopped a meeting between the U.N. human rights envoy to Cambodia and ethnic Kuoy villagers attempting to air their grievances over a long-running land dispute between them and a Chinese sugar cane plantation
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Long-awaited return to village frustrated
- Released Date: 24-Mar-2016
After two years in Phnom Penh protesting the loss of their land, 250 Preah Vihear familiesreceived intervention from the Interior Ministry last week and returned home, only to be turned away by provincial authorities.
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Kratie Protesters file Petition for Intervention in Land Dispute
- Released Date: 15-Mar-2016
About 100 villagers from Kratie province came to the capital yesterday to submit a petition to the prime ministers cabinet and the Interior Ministry requesting government intervention in a land dispute case that has seen three of their fellow residen
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Preah Vihear disputants allowed to keep land
- Released Date: 14-Mar-2016
More than 250 Preah Vihear families who have been living under the threat of eviction since 2010 are to be allowed to keep their homes, according to a letter from the Interior Ministry obtained yesterday.
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Road block leads to land grab inspection
- Released Date: 04-Mar-2016
Following a two-day roadblock protest by residents of six villages in Preah Vihear province, district authorities have inspected land allegedly stolen by Chinese sugar cane producer Rui Feng.
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Kandal villagers blame soil diggers for dry wells
- Released Date: 04-Mar-2016
Kandal provincial authorities have taken action to stop excavation activities in Kandal Stung districts Choeung Koeub commune, which are allegedly causing local wells to run dry.
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Locals accuse monk of inappropriate land sale
- Released Date: 29-Feb-2016
A crowd of some 300 villagers in Por Sen Chey district yesterday called for the chief monk of Kok Banchoan Pagoda to stand down after he proposed selling a village lake to build a $1 million temple.
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Kratie authorities tell families to get off land
- Released Date: 29-Feb-2016
Kraties provincial authorities on Friday gave an ultimatum to over 100 families living in Damrei Phong commune in Chhloung district, telling them to get off their land or face legal action.
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Families in Ratanakkiri file ELC complaint
- Released Date: 04-Feb-2016
More than 220 ethnic Tompuon families in Ratanakkiris Lumphat district yesterday filed a complaint to rights group Adhoc over a 2,000-hectare land dispute against an economic land concession.
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Report that New ELCs Were Granted to Logging Barons ‘False
- Released Date: 27-Jan-2016
In an open letter to the Ministry of Environment, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) asked yesterday for confirmation of a January 19 report in the Cambodia Daily that said new economic land concessions (ELCs) had been given to two tycoons
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Residents protest land clearing on Chroy Changvar peninsula
- Released Date: 26-Jan-2016
Several families yesterday burned tyres to protest the bulldozing of their land to make way for a road that will run next to a billion-dollar satellite city project on Phnom Penhs Chroy Changvar peninsula.Built by City Hall, the road will be set 100
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