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31 Julho 2020
(July 31, 2020) – Today, Cambodian plaintiffs representing more than 700 farming families won a landmark appeal allowing them to move forward with their class action against Asia’s largest sugar producer, Mitr Phol.
The transboundary class action Hoy Mai & Others vs. Mitr Phol Co. Ltd. is the…
30 Julho 2020
Development on one of the last large lakes in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh is impacting communities that rely on it for their livelihoods and causing significant flooding in the city as the result of runoff during heavy rains, an environmental watchdog said Thursday, calling for an end to the…
29 Julho 2020
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Is the COVID-motivated shift enough to support all the laid-off garment industry workers? Who will really benefit?
The Cambodian government has reverted its focus to small-scale farming amid COVID-19 to address the massive number of laid-off workers from the garment…
28 Julho 2020
The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction on Tuesday said 550 officials in inter-ministerial groups are set to implement a land registration plan in Mondulkiri province.
The announcement came at a meeting chaired by Minister Chea Sophara and attended by Minister of…
27 Julho 2020
A research report released by four civil society organisations on Monday warns that development in the Boeung Tompun lake puts 1.2 million Phnom Penh residents, or half the city’s population, in danger of floods.
One thousand families are at risk of eviction, loss of income and food insecurity from…
26 Julho 2020
Main photo: A construction worker casts a fishing net onto a flooded land following recent rain to catch fish on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, June 11, 2020.
BANGKOK - More than one million people in Phnom Penh face the risk of increased flooding and loss of livelihoods as…
26 Julho 2020
Siem Reap provincial administration director Sok Thol said on Sunday that provincial authorities were preparing a working group to update veterans’ social land concessions in Khnar Sandai and Khun Ream communes in Banteay Srei district.
Thol said in 2017, the government issued sub-decree No 33 to…
21 Julho 2020
The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction has set 2021 as the deadline to complete land registration nationwide, including indigenous land registration, with 74% of total land parcels already registered.
Around 5.2 million land parcels were registered nationwide, accounting…
20 Julho 2020
A series of land complaints were filed with the Mondulkiri Provincial Court on Monday by residents of Lames and Pou Lu villages who claim two community leaders stole land to sell.
The four indigenous plaintiffs also filed a complaint against an environment official for not preventing the offences…
15 Julho 2020
Koh Kong provincial authorities said they would not approve the sale and purchase of land in protected areas without proper paperwork.
They vowed to weed out land corruption following a July 3 Facebook post by Prime Minister Hun Sen calling for the return of land to locals living in protected areas…
14 Julho 2020
Citizens living under the Stung Meanchey Bridge can move to their plots along the Stung Meanchey canal within two weeks, Phnom Penh municipal governor Khuong Sreng said.
At a workshop analysing the development of the canal, Sreng said all sectors in the capital had developed over the past two…
13 Julho 2020
Nearly 100 families living on a public sidewalk in Boeung Keng Kang district’s Tomnop Teuk commune in Phnom Penh were recently given plots of land by the government in Khasch Kandal district’s Vihear Suor commune in Kandal province to encourage them to move.
Eng Phearith, 24, moved from the…