Current news briefings:
Land and Natural Resources Rights of Cambodia
December
“Officials blames villagers for deforestation”
Key word: deforestation, The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery
Date: December 4th , 2013
Source: The Phnom Penh Post (2013): http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/official-blames-villagers-deforestation
“Try Pheap ‘defamers’to see court”
Key word: illegal logging, Try Pheap, Sen San, Ouk Sambo
Date: December 5th , 2013
Source: The Phnom Penh Post (2013): http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/try-pheap-%E2%80%98defamers%E2%80%99-see-court
“Illegal miners tread carefully”
Key word: illegal mining, Ratanakkiri, natural resources
Date: December 5th , 2013
Source: The Phnom Penh Post (2013):
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-miners-tread-carefully
“Bunong Living on Land Concession Evicted”
“indigenous Bunong minority community in mondolkiri province filed a complaint claiming that authorities had destroyed their homes …”
Key word: land grabbing, mondolkiri, Keo Seima district
Date: December 6th , 2013
Source: The Phnom Penh Post (2013):
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/bunong-living-on-land-concession-evicted-48732/
“Mangrove ‘bulldozed’for rubber plantation”
700 families from Kampong Cham lost their homes and livelihood
Key word:Kampong Cham province, Bulldoze community, land right,
Date: December 6th , 2013
Source: The Phnom Penh Post (2013): http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mangrove-%E2%80%98bulldozed-rubber-plantation%E2%80%99
“Illegal logging suspects arrested
“two teenage boys arrested and charged with smuggling more than 2,000 kg of luxury grade rose wood from Kampong Thom to Siem Reap town”
Key word: Illegal Logging, , natural resources rights violation of Cambodia, Kampong Thom
Date: December 10th , 2013
Source: The Phnom Penh Post (2013):
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-logging-suspects-arrested
“Pursat families ordered to move”
29 families living in Pursat province are facing the force eviction
Key word: Force eviction, land rights, Pursat province, Phnom Kravanh district Phteah Rong commune
Date: December 10th , 2013
Source: The Phnom Penh Post (2013):
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pursat-families-ordered-move
“Man fronts fronts over Pheap row”
San Sen, quoted in, Cambodian Human Rights Task Force (CHRTF)’s report last month that implicated the Try Pheap’s illegal logging activities, was questioned in Kandal Provincial Court yesterday.
Key word: Illegal logging, Try Pheap
Date: December 12th , 2013
Source: The Phnom Penh Post (2013):
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/man-fronts-court-over-pheap-row
“Can’t see the forest for the ELCs”
“The percentage of cambodia covered in forest has fallen from about 72% in 1973 to only about 46% in 2013…”
Key word: Illegal logging, deforestation, natural resources rights, ELC
Date: December 12th , 2013
Source: The Phnom Penh Post (2013):
“Illegal wood hidden in petrol truck”
Key word: illegal logging, Kampuchea Tela Co, Ltd, Pursat province
Date: December 12th , 2013
Source: The Phnom Penh Post (2013):
“Opposition decries Prey Lang Logging”
Key word: Illegal logging, Kampong Thom, Sandan District
Date: December 12th , 2013
Source: The Phnom Penh Post (2013):
“Forest Falls in Rantanakkiri to the Tune of Chainsaws and Trucks”
Key word: Ratanakkiri, Lumphat wildlife sanctuary, natural resources
Date: December 12th , 2013
Source: The Cambodia Daily (2013):
