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PM tells SCC to lay off resolved land disputes
- Released Date: 18-May-2020
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday prohibited members of the Supreme Consultative Council from re-opening or getting involved with any land dispute cases that had already been addressed by the courts and the premier himself
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Officials accused of permitting land sale
- Released Date: 21-May-2020
Residents and civil society organisations on Thursday filed a joint complaint with the Mondulkiri Provincial Court against Pech Chreada district officials, including village and commune chiefs and the governor, for permitting the sale of community fo
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Municipal court charges two men for land fraud
- Released Date: 25-May-2020
Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Saturday charged and detained two land brokers accused of defrauding $1.5 million from a real estate businessman living in Phnom Penh over the sale of nearly 200 hectares of land in Kampong Speu province’s Oudong distric
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Mondulkiri police summon two in land dispute
- Released Date: 19-May-2020
Sre Ampoum commune police in Pech Chreada district, Mondulkiri province, summoned two members of an ethnic minority group on Wednesday to clarify a land dispute after they published a Facebook post claiming the land is illegally occupied
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Indigenous People Protest Over Farmland in Keo Seima Sanctuary
- Released Date: 06-May-2020
More than 200 indigenous people in Mondulkiri province’s Keo Seima district protested on Tuesday for access to farmland inside a wildlife sanctuary, which the Environment Ministry banned them from last month, citing conservation laws.
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Vietnamese Agribusiness Giant Destroys Indigenous Lands
- Released Date: 25-May-2020
(May 25, 2020 – Phnom Penh) - Indigenous villages in Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province had waited years for Vietnamese rubber company Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) to finally return their sacred lands, as they had promised to do in a 2015 mediated agreement.
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CSOs express concerns on Lao’s Mekong hydro project
- Released Date: 04-Jun-2020
“Given the potential risks caused by mainstream hydropower dams to Cambodian communities who rely on the Mekong for their livelihood, CSOs working on water governance in Cambodia are requesting a delay on the proposed project,” he said.
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Official shrugs off Mondulkiri land grab claim
- Released Date: 17-May-2020
Mondulkiri provincial Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction director Mao Chamroeun has denied allegations he collaborated with a third party to steal land from indigenous people. A complaint dated May 11 with the thumbprints of more than
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Tractor driver for hire ’clears’ state land
- Released Date: 02-Jun-2020
Kampong Thom police impounded two tractors in connection with the unauthorised clearance of state forest land on Monday, but the perpetrators escaped. Stoung district governor Neth Sary said his district’s military police and Kampong Thom provincial
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Pursat governor says land disputes no longer a major problem in area
- Released Date: 21-May-2020
Pursat provincial governor Mao Thonin has claimed that land disputes between residents and major companies allowed to manage land in the province are no longer a problem and minor disputes have been solved through land dispute resolutions each week.
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Gov’t intervention resolves long-standing land dispute between divorced couple
- Released Date: 26-May-2020
Kampong Speu Provincial Hall yesterday said it successfully resolved a dispute between a formerly married couple over 1,100 hectares of land in the province’s Phnom Sruoch district, putting an end to the long-standing conflict between both parties.
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Huge tracks of undocumented land a concern for registration officials
- Released Date: 03-Jun-2020
Siem Reap provincial deputy governor Ly Samrith expressed concern that land registration plans for residents scheduled to be completed by late 2021 could not be achieved because 80 per cent of the land had not been registered.
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