About 20 residents of Koh Kong province’s Kiri Sakor and Botum Sakor districts involved in a land dispute with the Union Development Group (UDG) said Chinese diplomats on Monday pledged to help them find a resolution to their 11-year-old woes after they made a five-hour trip to Phnom Penh to protest at the embassy.
Phnom Penh residents being moved to make way for railway expansion met with City Hall on Thursday complaining their houses were falling into disrepair waiting three years for relocation.
Information Minister Khieu Kanharith warned he would publicly shame ministry officials who failed to come into work despite collecting salaries, tactics an accountability expert called questionable despite the need for reform.
Residents living around the $3.8-billion resort project by China’s Union Development Group (UDG) say they are worried for their safety after even their Cambodian People’s Party commune chief has now been summoned for questioning over a road they were building to local population centers.
A mobile app is promising cash rewards for users who read the news — an estimated $0.0015 per article — but one observer has raised concerns over the potential privacy implications of the company’s unclear business model.
Timber magnate Try Pheap’s request to dredge sand in the Mekong and Tonle Bassac rivers is awaiting a study on the potential impact on riverbanks, a Water Ministry official said on Monday.
About 400 villagers protested outside the district hall in Kandal province’s Kandal Stung district on Monday seeking compensation for communal land they say was sold without their knowledge to house Phnom Penh’s new airport.
Police and military police have been accused of burning down 11 houses and razing family farms in Kratie province to clear a resettlement site for the evictees of an earlier land conflict.
Villagers in Kratie province who were violently dispossessed by a rubber company linked to Prime […]
The families in Kompong Chhnang province’s Lor Peang community lost their homes and farms to a government minister’s wife more than a decade ago.
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