The Kuy community has long been in dispute with Sambath Platinum, to which in 2011 the state granted nearly 2,500 hectares of land for a rubber plantation in Boeng Per Wildlife Sanctuary.
The army’s Region 4 has been accused of using nature protection to grab Siem Reap land, while Koh Kong villagers protested the questioning of a representative.
Workers seeking compensation from the shuttered Canteran Apparel garment factory have moved their tents to the sidewalk after they were made to leave the factory compound, they said.
The Mondulkiri Provincial Court questioned four Bunong environmentalists for several hours on Tuesday over alleged defamation and incitement based on a developer’s complaint.
Prom Thomacheat, living in Oral district’s Metta forest, said the small hut where he had slept was burned to the ground on Monday.
More than 400 investors in GoldFX — a troubled investment firm linked to ruling party scions — last week accepted a deal to recover 30% of the money they lost, a company lawyer said.
SYHJ Garment, a Chinese-owned factory in Kandal province’s Ang Snuol district, fired three leaders of a newly emerging union in April, leading to a Labor Ministry directive that the terminations violated Trade Union Law protections for shop steward and union leaders. But the factory has remained defiant.
A Kandal province factory is continuing to refuse to reinstate workers whom it fired as they were trying to start a union, and workers now want to take up the issue with the factory’s international clients.
Workers demanding legal compensation from a shuttered garment factory gathered outside the Labor Ministry on Monday to file a petition seeking its intervention.
Families in Stung Treng’s Sesan district are accusing an agriculture company of bulldozing the land they say they moved to after the Lower Sesan 2 Hydropower Dam flooded their land.
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