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26 December 2020
Conflict prevention, is more cost-effective and warrants more investment and scaling-up” Mustapha Ceesay, Assistant FAO Representative
24 December 2020
Lawyer extols value of traditional knowledge and tenure systems
24 December 2020
The Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court has placed eight men in pre-trial detention on charges of “intentional violence” in relation to a land dispute with tycoon Pheun Phalla, who holds the honorific “oknha” title, in Prey Nop district. The land dispute involving oknha Phalla and 500 families living O
23 December 2020
True to its reputation, Pakistan’s Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) is once again trying to forcibly occupy a prime land which has been given on lease to Teerath Singh, a Sikh resident of Nankana Sahib.     According to highly places intelligence sources, the officials of ETPB in connivance with
23 December 2020
The Preah Sihanouk Provincial Administration and the O’Oknha Heng commune authority are investigating a land dispute involving 500 families living in O’Oknha Heng and O’Ta Sek villages that recently erupted into violence. In their initial conclusion, the authorities said the villagers are not
23 December 2020
Main photo: Sok Oudom, pictured at a construction site, is the owner of Rithysen radio station and a local citizen journalist in Kampong Chhnang province, Cambodia. (Courtesy of Facebook) A Kampong Chhnang radio station owner was convicted for incitement on Tuesday and sentenced to 20 months in
21 December 2020
Police are still investigating the murder of a pagoda chief monk who was found dead on the morning of December 20 in Vihear Luong commune in Kandal province’s northernmost Ponhea Leu district. The body of Chey Rith, the chief monk of Preah Chedei Thmey pagoda in Chedei Thmey village, was found in
15 December 2020
Forced labour much more widespread than initially thought in China region that supplies a fifth of the world’s cotton
9 December 2020
Eleven monks in Kampong Speu province have escaped to avoid being defrocked by the provincial monk council after authorities found that they were involved in state forest land encroachment. Phnom Sruoch district’s deputy chief monk Venerable Nou Chin told The Post on December 8 that the provincial
4 December 2020
Main photo: Fourteen Lao Christians evicted from their homes in Luang Namtha province's Long district are shown in a February 2020 photo. (Citizen Journalist) Seven Lao Christians evicted from their homes in southern Saravan province in October for refusing to renounce their faith have returned to
3 December 2020
Seeking quick returns, Chinese investors are driving a scramble for plantation land in parts of northern Myanmar.
26 November 2020
Top Indonesian ministers who pushed for the passage of a deregulation bill that benefits the mining and “dirty energy” industry have links to some of those very companies, a new report shows. The report by a coalition of NGOs highlights “massive potential for conflicts of interest” in the drafting

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