Two-thirds of Tonle Bati lake — a popular weekend getaway — will be filled in by a developer, official documents show, as three other lakes in Kandal and a further area on Phnom Penh’s Boeng Tamok have been privatized by Hun Sen’s decree.
An indigenous community in Ratanakiri’s Nhang commune said Thursday a local company was cutting down their trees, destroying their crops and blocking access to their land.
Dozens of Boeng Tamok residents staged another rally near their lakeside shacks Thursday to protest looming evictions by the vanishing body of water.
The Koh Kong provincial court has ordered nine families to dismantle small homes built on state land as part of an ongoing crackdown on settlement in the area.
Three villagers will go to the Siem Reap Provincial Court starting Friday to answer to accusations of encroaching on a protected forest, but the three say the forest doesn’t exist — and was only listed as a protected area as part of an official scheme to grab land.
After a few months of rapid deforestation, tree-cutting activity at Kampong Speu’s Metta forest has slowed down in recent days as clearings reach the boundary limits of land allocated to families from the military’s tank unit.
About 100 families living on the edge of Phnom Penh’s increasingly land-filled Boeng Tamok lake protested outside the Prek Pnov district hall demanding land titles and criticizing the transfer of lake plots to tycoons and the family of government officials.
Kampong Chhnang residents — previously affected by a long-standing land dispute — say a new lake renovation project is affecting incomes in the community as snail and fish populations dwindle amid the work.
Three indigenous Bunong women from Mondulkiri made an appeal in the Supreme Court in Phnom Penh on Wednesday over their convictions for removing fence posts to protect ancestral lands.
More than 100 families in Preah Vihear’s Kulen district are accusing a company of clearing their land in an economic land concession and filing complaints
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