Aun Pheap
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Rows of Rosewood Recovered in Kandal Warehouse Raid After Tip
A raid organized after receiving a tip led to the discovery on Thursday of rows of luxury-grade wood stacked in a Kandal province warehouse, officials said. → Read More
Sugar Dispute Resolution Leaves Some Communities Out
The Land Management Ministry on Wednesday announced a plan to resolve a yearslong land dispute between thousands of villagers and well-connected sugar barons by early next month, though not all affected communities were included. → Read More
Hundreds of Evictions Ordered on Hun Daughter’s Plantation
More than 400 families have been ordered to remove their homes built next to a rubber plantation on land in Kratie province given to Hun Mana, the daughter of Prime Minister Hun Sen, or see them forcibly torn down without compensation. → Read More
Sesan Dam Holdout Families Petition Ministry for Intervention
Representatives of holdout families who are refusing to evacuate two Stung Treng province villages that will be flooded by the Lower Sesan II dam traveled to Phnom Penh to petition the Mines and Energy Ministry for help on Friday. → Read More
Local Authorities ‘Cheated’ Angkor Villagers, Official Says
A provincial official has acknowledged for the first time that local authorities took money from villagers to allow constructions inside Angkor Archaeological Park, but said on Thursday that the illegal structures would still be demolished. → Read More
Evicted Kampot Villagers Rally at Land Ministry to Settle ELC
More than 150 people representing 308 families recently evicted in a land dispute involving a Kampot province land concession assembled outside the Land Management Ministry in Phnom Penh on Wednesday in a last-ditch effort to return to their land. → Read More
Gov’t Investigating Claims of Logging in Wildlife Sanctuary
Authorities in Pursat province are investigating allegations by villagers that timber baron Try Pheap’s company is illegally logging in a wildlife sanctuary and transporting the wood to company property, an official said on Sunday. → Read More
Villagers in Koh Kong Land Dispute Petition PM for Help
About 40 people locked in a long-running land dispute in Koh Kong province on Thursday submitted a petition at Phnom Penh’s Wat Botum Park asking Prime Minister Hun Sen to prod the Land Management Ministry into resolving their situation. → Read More
More Arrests Made in Kampot Commune, Military Police Say
Military police said they arrested two men on Tuesday afternoon in a Kampot commune that saw violent evictions and protests last week—and where authorities are reportedly going door-to-door to find villagers involved—but maintained the arrests were unrelated to the clash. → Read More
Some Angkor Park Homes May Be Spared From Removal: Official
Some of more than 100 people who appealed to Siem Reap provincial authorities to halt the removal of their illegally-built structures inside Angkor Archaeological Park may be allowed to keep their homes, an official said on Tuesday. → Read More
Seized Tractors, Used by Police Officers, to Be Returned to HQ
Mondolkiri’s deputy provincial governor has ordered the return of seven tractors that were originally seized as evidence in an illegal timber smuggling case in February and later taken for personal use by police officers in the province. → Read More
Sesan Residents Searched Over Fears of ‘Terrorism’
Villagers living near the Lower Sesan II dam in Stung Treng province are being stopped and searched at a road checkpoint by officials fearing possible “terrorism” attacks on the controversial dam. → Read More
Deportation of Montagnards Stalled After UN Objection
The government has stalled its latest effort to deport a group of Vietnamese asylum-seekers at the behest of the U.N. refugee agency, an official said on Sunday, after stating last month that the 16 Montagnards would soon be expelled to Vietnam. → Read More
Gov’t Creates Joint Committee to Tackle Flooding
Municipal and national-level officials established a joint committee on Wednesday that will attempt to solve a problem many of Phnom Penh’s residents have long considered: why swaths of the city become flooded every rainy season. → Read More
Armed Military Police to Join Apsara Authority for Razing
Following threats from villagers, armed military and police forces will help secure a team that will forcibly raze hundreds of improperly constructed homes and shops within protected areas of Angkor Archaeological Park, an official said on Wednesday. → Read More
Returning Sesan Families Warned of Greater Floods From Dam
Families in Stung Treng province that returned to a village near the Lower Sesan II dam after floodwaters temporarily receded are being warned they will be forced again to flee when a far worse deluge comes as all of the new dam’s gates are shut. → Read More
Tbong Khmum Residents Evacuated as Mekong Floods Moves South
Hundreds of riverside families in Tbong Khmum province were on Monday evacuated away from the flooding Mekong River, even as the provinces hit hardest by tropical storm ‘Sonca’ last week returned to normalcy and evacuees shuffled back to their homes. → Read More
Flooding, Water Shortage Expected After Regional Storms Disperse
Following days of severe weather that led officials to issue emergency warnings in more than five provinces and launch efforts to evacuate residents in the country’s coastal and northern regions, people living along the Mekong must now brace for flooding from water surging downstream, officials said on Sunday. → Read More
Villagers Find Temporary Shelter as Sesan Dam Floods Homes
Families in a Stung Treng province village who have defied government warnings that testing of the Lower Sesan II dam would inundate their homes fled to nearby hills over the weekend as floodwaters reached 1 meter in depth, a villager said yesterday. → Read More
UN Officials Blocked From Villages Facing Threat of Flood
Authorities on Tuesday turned back U.N. human rights monitors heading toward a village expected to sink underwater as a new hydroelectric dam tested its floodgates, officials said. → Read More