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Cambodia has around 200 government-provided land concessions, totally 2 million hectares.
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The men had been forced to work long hours for little pay aboard the boat before escaping to Indonesia.
Prime Minister Hun Sen announced last week he wanted the men arrested.
Sia Phearum told “Hello VOA” people are being forced off land they earned through “backbreaking” work.
The group counted nearly 50 community evictions last year alone, affecting almost 12,000 families.
The letter was delivered to China, France, Russia, the UK and the United States.
The measures are designed to crack down on the sales of pirated U.S. products overseas.
Phan Imex was supposed to build 10 buildings to house evicted residents and built eight instead.
A US official said this week that Obama could participate in an Asean summit to be hosted in Cambodia in November.
Asean countries are facing a multitude of issues which includes a dispute over the South China Sea.
Meanwhile, the US is making diplomatic efforts to improve its relationship in Cambodia.
Thirty-eight people remain in unlawful detention after they were seized by authorities as they protested outside City Hall this week.
The demonstrators were seized Wednesday, where they had demanded the courts release eight representatives arrested earlier this month.
An estimated 20,000 Cambodians are trafficked throughout the region each year.
Around 300 families lost their homes in the Jan. 3 forced eviction of Borei Keila.
The site, at Phnom Bath mountain, is 50 kilometers outside the capital and lacks clean water, electricity, and health care facilities.
Moek Dara is accused of abusing his post to gather hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and organizing drug trafficking.
Thailand forcibly returned more than 100,000 Cambodians last year.
In a meeting this week both foreign ministers said they would speed up negotiations over joint development in offshore blocs.
Recently, Prime Minister Hun Sen has called for the nullification of land certificates in protected natural areas in Cambodia.
Growth was bolstered by strong garment exports, increased tourism and a slowly recovering real estate sector, IMF said in a statement.
