100 Supporters Gather at Koh Kong Court as Protesters Questioned
About 100 Koh Kong villagers gathered outside the provincial court on Wednesday in support of community members who were questioned over a dispute with sugar plantation Heng Huy.
About 100 Koh Kong villagers gathered outside the provincial court on Wednesday in support of community members who were questioned over a dispute with sugar plantation Heng Huy.
The Koh Kong Provincial Court on Thursday acquitted the founder of environmental group Mother Nature over a charge related to activists protesting sand dredging in the province in 2015.
About 100 villagers from Koh Kong province protested outside the Land Ministry headquarters in Phnom Penh on Monday after 10 of their representatives were summoned for court questioning for defamation and incitement.
More than 500 villagers representing 1,317 families from three districts in Koh Kong province gathered to protest at the Land Ministry on Monday to demand
The Land Ministry this afternoon rejected the claims of about 100 land protestors from Koh Kong province protesting outside the ministry in Phnom Penh and
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.
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.
The Koh Kong Provincial Court has summoned the co-founder of the environmental activist group Mother Nature, Alejandro Gonzalez-Davidson, for a court hearing despite the fact that he was deported from Cambodia more than four years ago and has been repeatedly denied his requests to return.
Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered authorities to cut off the electricity supply over the coming Khmer New Year period of anyone who claims recent power outages are due to a government plan to build support for new hydropower dams.
Villagers affected by alleged land-grabbing for the construction of a massive Chinese resort development in Koh Kong province have appealed to the Land Management Ministry to expedite its work to find a solution.
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