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Prime Minister Hun Sen urged authorities to focus on settling land and worker disputes to avoid social unrest, as he addressed a Central Committee meeting of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) in the run-up to the 2023 general election. The November 26 meeting was attended by over 3,000 CPP members.
Prime Minister Hun Sen instructed the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction to work with authorities in the six provinces around the Tonle Sap Lake to rezone parts of Zone 3 – and prepare land titles for the residents – before Khmer New Year. He said this needed to be done to provide stability to the people who had resided there for generations.
Cambodia puts its arduous titling process for Indigenous land up for review by Danielle Keeton-Olsen on 15 April 2021 Since 2009, Cambodia has had a legal process by which Indigenous communities can obtain legal title to their traditional land. Of around 455 Indigenous communities in Cambodia, 33 have been granted land titles. People who have engaged in the Indigenous land titling process say it is time-consuming and arduous, and that even successful claimants are often granted title to just a fraction of their customary land. This year, Cambodia has launched a review of its communal land ti...
Share Ministry asserts power over state private land Tue, 19 January 2021 The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction has reasserted its authority to conduct cadastral surveys of land plots that aim to establish leaseholder rights over state private land. State private land is legally defined as all property that belongs to the state but does not have a public interest value. This land can be allocated or transferred by the state but it must be listed in the national inventory first. Land management minister Chea Sophara sent a letter regarding this issue to the minister...
Share Reeling in Cambodia’s real estate sector Thu, 14 January 2021 A new norm sets the scene but risks continue to play out in the background A cold wind sweeps through the streets of Boeung Trabek on an early January morning as buyers and traders engage in commerce under bright blue skies. From a distance, the scene of the market complex where local wares entice shoppers is colourful and vibrant. Just before it lies its former extension, now occupied by an abandoned massive mixed development project that looms above the market din. The $250 million Sino Plaza, once prophesied as the large...