A dozen men were still crowded in front of a Roka II village home at lunchtime, two hours after a 500-strong protest had dispersed morning. The men took turns recounting the protest and condemning a group of five brokers who they fear will cut them off from the lake they have fished and farmed for generations.
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The Bunong indigenous community of Phnom Ses Community Forest in Kratie Province have voiced concerns over increasing levels of encroachment onto their ancestral land, with both plantations and illegal timber extracting operations destroying their traditional sites.
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Rights groups are urging Cambodian authorities to release an autistic teenager who was sentenced to eight months in prison for social media posts critical of the government, saying his case was being misused to intimidate his opposition activist parents.
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Some of Cambodia’s fishing communities and civil society organisations are expressing great concern over the ongoing loss of mangrove forests in coastal areas due to illegal encroachment as well as legal coastal development projects. They called on relevant authorities to intervene on the matter.
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The Cambodian Youth Network (CYN) released statement that they used a drone to find 143 illegal houses constructed inside Phnom Ses Community Forest in Kratie province’s Sambour district in O’Krieng commune.
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Vorn Pao was distraught when one of his association’s workers was detained in May this year while collecting the names of families living along the Thai-Cambodia border who were facing food shortages due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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About 600 people from four villages surrounding Boeung Khyang Lake in Roka Chonloeng commune of Kandal province’s Khsach Kandal district gathered at the commune hall on November 2 seeking an intervention and demanding authorities to preserve the lake for community use.
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The new Phnom Penh International Airport project is undertaking surveys of more properties in Kandal for eviction and compensation, but residents say few are cooperating amid an increasingly disputed development.
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