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More than 20 police surround RCAF general’s Mondolkiri home

In the weeks that 17-year-old garment worker Yon Chea languished in prison, he spent hours staring out of the window at a concrete wall, certain that he would never see his home or his family again. “I never thought I would get out. There was a ...

Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-than-20-police-surround-rcaf-generals-mondolkiri-home-51769/

Villagers Sued for Property Damage by Company

Four villagers locked in a land dispute with an agribusiness firm in Banteay Meanchey province said Tuesday that they had been summonsed to the provincial court over a property damage lawsuit filed by the company. The suit was originally filed last year, but villagers said they ...

Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-sued-for-property-damage-by-company-51458/

Cambodia’s rice under fire

Amid falling local production in Italy, officials there are calling on the European Union to scrap a preferential trade agreement that gives Cambodia’s rice exports duty-free advantages in the global market. According to a January 31 report from rice industry publication Oryza, members of the Italian ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia%E2%80%99s-rice-under-fire

Kuoy tribe says 7,000 hectares overrun by Chinese companies

With a Cambodian delegation in Geneva defending its human rights efforts, a minority group in Preah Vihear province is calling for the cancellation of two licenses for Chinese companies accused of grabbing thousands of hectares of land. ...

Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/kuoy-tribe-says-7000-hectares-overrun-by-chinese-companies/1839370.html

Cambodia's rubber export up 34 pct in 2013

Cambodia has seen a 34 percent rise in dry rubber export last year thanks to rising demand globally, the figures of the Ministry of Commerce showed Thursday. The country had exported 74,200 tones of dry rubber last year, up 34 percent from 55,344 tones in a ...

Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2014-01/23/c_133068429.htm

ANZ Implicated in Sugar Plantation Evictions

Three NGOs on Wednesday called on ANZ Royal Bank to help the hundreds of families who have lost farmland to a sugar plantation that the bank helped to finance in Kompong Speu province. The NGOs also made public a 2013 social and environmental impact assessment of ...

Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/anz-implicated-in-sugar-plantation-evictions-50980/

Exports consistent for Cambodia’s ag sector

Cambodia exported 2.9 million tons of agricultural products last year, roughly the same as 2012, but experts say the figure does not reflect the huge potential for the market. According to official data from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, exports included more than 1 ...

May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exports-consistent-cambodia%E2%80%99s-ag-sector

Cambodia produces 9.3 mln tonnes of paddy rice last year

Cambodia had produced 9.3 million tons of paddy rice in 2013, which was comparable to the amount in 2012, according to the report of the Ministry of Agriculture on Thursday.​ Hean Vanhorn, director of the single window secretariat for facilitating milled rice exports, called on ...

Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/838958.shtml#.UuHaSMr-LIU

Villagers in Land Dispute Detain Workers, Confiscate Equipment

Villagers involved in a land dispute in Battambang province on Monday temporarily detained six men working for an agribusiness firm who were preparing the disputed land to be cleared, residents and police said. The six workers were using mine detectors to check for unexploded ordnance in ...

Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-in-land-dispute-detain-workers-confiscate-equipment-50594/

Rights group sues ELC staff

Three rights monitors filed an attempted murder lawsuit against a Mondulkiri land concessionaire employee on Wednesday, after he violently denied them access to an area under investigation for forest crimes, Adhoc said yesterday. The stand-off comes on the heels of a second potentially violent confrontation ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rights-group-sues-elc-staff

Korean deal gives palm sugar farmers pay day

Palm sugar farmers in Kampong Speu province will soon export their goods to South Korea, the senior officer of a grower’s network said on Monday. Sam Saroeun, president of the Kampong Speu Palm Sugar Promotion Association, said an agreement with the Korea Trade Investment Promotion Agency ...

Chan Muy Hong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/korean-deal-gives-palm-sugar-farmers-pay-day

‘Stubborn’ furniture firm vexes villagers

Twenty families from Ratanakkiri’s Kon Mom district are seeking intervention after a private company allegedly encroached on 10 hectares of their land. The unnamed company produces furniture from wood acquired from embattled Vietnamese concessionaire Hoang Anh Andong Meas, and over the course of the last two ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98stubborn%E2%80%99-furniture-firm-vexes-villagers

Rice Exports Rise by More Than 170,000 Tons

Rice exports increased from 205,717 tons in 2012 to 378,856 tons in 2013 as a result of high demand from the European Union as well as countries in Asia, according to figures released Thursday by the Ministry of Agriculture. France imported the most Cambodian milled rice, ...

Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/rice-exports-rise-by-more-than-170000-tons-49976/

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