New Koh Kong Commune Chief Says Cannot Help Sugarcane Disputants
A new ruling-party commune chief in Koh Kong province has refused to accept a petition from village residents asking for a resolution to their dispute against Senator Ly Yong Phat.
A new ruling-party commune chief in Koh Kong province has refused to accept a petition from village residents asking for a resolution to their dispute against Senator Ly Yong Phat.
Workers gathered outside Phnom Penh’s Jing Sheng Factory on Thursday demanding compensation for workers who were allegedly fired after they tried to form a union.
Two residents of Boeng Tamok protesting the filling-in of the lake were questioned by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday, with five others expected in court over the next week.
Representatives of about 80 families living around southern Phnom Penh’s major lake development say they fear eviction as sandfilling is nearing their houses and they have yet to receive the land titles promised to them by authorities.
More than 300 village residents from Koh Kong province protested at a district hall on Monday, asking for a social land concession to resolve their longstanding land conflict with a sugarcane plantation.
A Koh Kong resident in dispute with a sugar plantation was sentenced to a year in prison on Wednesday for malicious denunciation, but remains free for now with no arrest warrant issued by the court.
Some 131 families living on an economic land concession in Preah Vihear province’s Kulen district fear forced eviction after authorities cleared half of their homes earlier this year, leaving them in tents on land they say they have occupied for 10 years.
Six hectares of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Tamok has been handed to a four-star general in charge of the Interior Ministry’s finance department, as residents living along the lake’s shore continued to protest their looming resettlement.
Authorities’ seizure of two overweight grain trucks carrying Cambodian produce over the Thai border sparked protest by hundreds of farmers and the arrest of four alleged instigators.
Seven women protesting evictions from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Tamok lake have been summoned to court for incitement and obstruction based on a complaint by the district security chief.
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