He’s the calm strategist. She’s the one who takes the front line. For twenty years, Ornuch and Pramote Phonpinyo have split the work of running one of the country’s most enduring land rights networks.

Thousands of Cambodian families were cleared from Angkor Archaeological Park and resettled in a government-built city. Years later, the market sits empty, the debt is mounting and many have already left.

Cambodia grants Economic Land Concessions on state property. But much of that land is Indigenous territory – unrecognised because communities can’t navigate the title process. An explainer on how the system enables displacement.

Thailand’s national parks have a complication the maps didn’t show: people. Thousands of families have settled on forest land, only to find themselves declared encroachers when officials later drew park boundaries around their homes. After decades of evictions, one village has found a solution.

Is a rubber company controlled by a retired general’s daughter pressuring indigenous farmers to give up their land in Cambodia? Jarai villagers say the firm offers minimal compensation for ancestral plots – then seizes the land anyway when families refuse.

As Cambodia’s Techo International Airport rises, development blocks the fishing lakes that supported 400 families for decades. Without formal land titles, the community now faces forced eviction.