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Households at Samaki Rong Roeurng community in Chamkar Mon district face eviction due to the canal expansion project to relieve flooding in Phnom Penh. Photo taken on May 26, 2025. (CamboJA/Pring Samrang)

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Eviction Deadline Passes but Samaki Rong Roeurng Community Still Seek Better Compensation

24 Jun 2025 8:35 AM|
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The Chamkar Mon district authority has extended the deadline for 12 households in the Samaki Rong Roeurng community to look for rental homes or new locations before eviction takes place. However, the residents insist that they will not leave as the compensation of $1,000 to $4,000 is not adequate.

The new Think Biotech/Angkor Plywood sawmill in the immediate vicinity of Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. All photographs are screenshots from the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime report.

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New organized crime report accuses public-private partnership of illegal logging of Prey Lang

1 Apr 2021 9:55 PM|

An international advocacy group tracking organized crime has accused the Cambodian government of overlooking, and at times actively protecting illegal logging groups driving severe deforestation in the ecologically significant Prey…

Customers in front of a coffee shop in Phnom Penh ahead of the curfew on April 1, 2021. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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Phnom Penh placed under curfew as Covid cases, deaths rise

1 Apr 2021 7:25 PM|

Phnom Penh Governor Khuong Sreng declared a two-week curfew in the capital from April 1, with travel and gathering banned from 8 pm until 5 am, as COVID-19 infections related…

Three Mother Nature activists arrive at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court for their hearing, March 31, 2021. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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Trial begins against Mother Nature activists

1 Apr 2021 9:30 AM|

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court began hearings Wednesdayin the trial against three environmental activists charged with incitement after sharing information about a planned one-person protest over the by the filling…

Family members of former officials of the deposed CNRP political opposition gather in front of the US embassy seeking help to release their relatives, October 2020.CamboJA/Panha Chhorpoan

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Cambodian leaders “committed abuses with impunity”, says US State Department in 2020 human rights report

31 Mar 2021 8:43 PM|

Cambodian government units committed significant human rights abuses last year, according to the U.S. Department of State in its newly released 2020 human rights report.

Screenshots from the Mother Nature video reveal large tracts of land cleared within the Bokor National Park in Kampot province.

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Rights groups worried about Bokor city demarcation, land clearings

31 Mar 2021 6:54 PM|

The government has created a new Bokor city within the Preah Monivong Bokor National Park, which is the location of local tycoon Sok Kong’s mega-development projects, resulting in an outcry…

Duong Chhay stands in line to receive alms, in this photo posted on his Facebook page on Sunday.

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Police say no questioning for tycoon filmed beating wife until he leaves the monkhood

30 Mar 2021 8:53 AM|

Prosecutors agreed to delay questioning of Duong Chhay — a tycoon caught on film beating his wife — for an undisclosed period of time while he serves as a monk,…

Radio station owner Sok Oudom is escorted by police as he leaves the Kampong Chhnang Provincial Court where he was tried on November 3. Khuon Narim

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Online journalists most targeted in free press crackdown, report says

29 Mar 2021 9:13 PM|

Journalists were subjected to violence, threats and criminal charges in 2020, as the Cambodian government targeted the free press but did not investigate crimes against reporters and editors, according to…

A consignment of 1.5 million doses of CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Phnom Penh on Friday. CamboJA/Pring Samrang

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New vaccines arrive as COVID-19 case count continues to climb

26 Mar 2021 5:42 PM|

Cambodia received 1.5 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine from Chinese firm Sinovac Biotech, as the country sees a fast-spreading cluster of new cases, which resulted in 96 cases reported…

Eviction Deadline Passes but Samaki Rong Roeurng Community Still Seek Better Compensation

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Rights groups worried about Bokor city demarcation, land clearings

Police say no questioning for tycoon filmed beating wife until he leaves the monkhood

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Eviction Deadline Passes but Samaki Rong Roeurng Community Still Seek Better Compensation

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Trial begins against Mother Nature activists

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