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Sugar crash
Source: Phnom Penh Post More than 170 representatives of 147 Koh Kong families calling for the government’s intervention in their land disputes with two sugar concessions have threatened to march to...
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Illegal fishing crackdown sees netting, traps seized
Source: Phnom Penh Post Authorities work with fisherman in Pursat after the provincial fishery administration authority launched a campaign against fishery crime. Photo supplied. Pursat Provincial...
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M’kiri logging allegations
Source: Phnom Penh Post Community members at Nam Lear Wildlife Sanctuary. Photo supplied About 1,000 hectares of protected forest in Mondulkiri province have been logged under the noses of environment...
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Stories of the year
Source: Phnom Penh Post The nation was rocked by the assassination of a prominent government critic, as Prime Minister Hun Sen kept the pressure on the opposition. A crackdown on illegal logging was...
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Real estate investment caps off 2016 at record levels
Source: Phnom Penh Post 2016 has been a rough ride for many in the real estate industry, but next year sings a promising tune. Moeun Nhean Industry experts are remaining cautiously optimistic for...
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Veng Sreng scars still haunt unions
Source: Phnom Penh Post Garment factory workers attack the police in a protest demanding an increase in monthly minimum wage at Veng Sreng in 2014. Heng Chivoan It’s been three years, but the emotion...
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System puts ‘profits over people’
Source: Phnom Penh Post A worker stands on a pipe pumping sand into Phnom Penh’s Boeung Kak lake, a site where mass evictions by a ruling party senator’s company took place in 2011. Cambodia’s unique...
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Truck linked to alleged logger busted in M’kiri
Source: Phnom Penh Post A truck carrying illegal first-grade timber that was confiscated in Mondulkiri province on Sunday. Photo supplied Border officials arrested five men on Sunday night for...
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Next up for Vanny: trial
Source: Phnom Penh Post Tep Vanny at Boeung Kok House in Phnom Penh Heng Chivoan The investigation into prominent Boeung Kak lake activist Tep Vanny’s alleged instigation of violence during a 2013...
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Borei Keila evictees occupy site
Source: Phnom Penh Post Security guards forcefully remove protesters occupying a building near the Borei Keila eviction site in Phnom Penh yesterday. Photo supplied Five years after more than 300...
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‘Positive’ Meeting on Mosque Road Plans
Source: Phnom Penh Post Cham Muslims assembled outside Boeung Kak’s Al-Serkal Mosque last week to protest against City Hall’s decision to build a road that will run just 50 metres from where the mosque...
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Families protest water restrictions in Poipet
Source: Phnom Penh Post Water shortage in Banteay Meanchey, April 26, 2016 Hong Menea Nearly 50 families from a village in Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet town yesterday protested to demand that a...
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Veng Sreng anniversary muted
Source: Phnom Penh Post Workers curate a wall of photos documenting the violent suppression of the Veng Sreng protests in 2014 to mark its anniversary yesterday in Phnom Penh. Pha Lina Only one major...
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Structures on ‘state land’ torn down by authorities
Source: Phnom Penh Post Kompong Speu authority dismantled more than 30 huts and homes built on state land. Photo supplied. Military and police officials dismantled 34 cottages and huts yesterday for...
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B Keila holdouts given month to mull payouts
Source: Phnom Penh Post Borei Keila community members protest over a new compensation offer by the government in Phnom Penh yesterday. Hong Menea Holdouts from Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila community...
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Activist questioned over defamation allegations
Source: Phnom Penh Post Land rights activist Kuch Veng speaks to two monks after being questioned at the Pursat Provincial Court yesterday. Photo supplied Almost 150 villagers gathered outside the...
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Villagers swat down 1.5-hectare resolution
Source: Phnom Penh Post Villagers from Koh Kong Province bring Pettition to Ministry of Land Management Urban Planning and Construction at Chomkar Morn district in Phnom Penh. Heng Chivoan The...
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MP’s land to be given back to Kandal locals
Source: Phnom Penh Post CPP lawmaker Lok Hour (second left) appears at a parlimentary event in 2013. Photo supplied The government on Friday decided to reclaim almost 3,000 hectares of land from a...
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Back in Black
Source: Phnom Penh Post Protestors campaign on Black Monday in the Boeung Kak community with banners portraying detained officials demanding their release. Pha Lina After halting for two weeks,...
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Chinese workers rally for back wages at B Kak
Source: Phnom Penh Post Chinese workers outside a construction site at Phnom Penh’s Boeung Kak development area yesterday. Photo supplied About 40 Chinese construction workers yesterday protested at a...
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