Agriculture
Agricultural production
Sugar firm under fire
- 3 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Biofuel crops / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Exports / Human rights / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development / Sugar / The poor / Trade
- Angkor Sugar / Asia / blood sugar / child labour / Chongkal district / duty-free trade preferences / Eang Vuthy / ELC / Equitable Cambodia / EU / European Parliament / European Union aid / Everything But Arms / Food insecurity / force eviction / Human Rights / human rights abuses / Kampong Speu Province / Koh Kong / Koh Kong Province / KSL / Land concession / land conflict / Land dispute / land eviction / Land Law / LICADHO / Ly Yong Phat / Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation / O’Bat Moun / Oddar Meanchey Province / Phnom Penh Sugar Company / Senator Ly Yong Phat / social impact assessments / Somrang district / sugar / sugar cane-planting concessionaires / Sugar company / sugar concession / sugar plantations / Tate and Lyle / Thai conglomerate / Thai human rights body / Thai national human rights commission / Thai sugar manufacturer KSL / Thailand / Tonle Sugar Cane / trade preferences
Asia’s largest sugar company has been accused of torching hundreds of homes, orchestrating the imprisonment of a pregnant activist and using security forces to beat villagers – among a raft of other grave human rights abuses – by communities in Oddar Meanchey province. The allegations levelled ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060366024/National/sugar-firm-under-fire.html
Homes, Trees Destroyed, Villagers Say
- 31 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
- Adhoc / Adhoc provincial coordinator / Che Chei / Corruption / destruction / Disputed Land / ELCs / evictions / Farm Land / forced evictions / human rights violations / illegal logging / land conflict / Land dispute / MDS Import Export Co Ltd / Oknha Try Pheap / Phoung Sothear / Prom Ngorn / Pursat / Pursat Province / rubber / rubber trees / social land concessions / Thai Border / Thailand / Thma Da Commune Chief / Veal Veng district / Veal Veng District Governor / villagers
About 50 police, soldiers and environmental officials yesterday demolished two houses and cut down thousands of trees belonging to families who are locked in a land dispute with MDS Import Export Co, owned by tycoon Try Pheap, villagers in Pursat province claimed. Fellow villager Khouch ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013053165987/National/homes-trees-destroyed-villagers-say.html
Jarai Villagers Ask UN for Help in Land Fight
- 31 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forests and forestry / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
- community forest / community land / Company 72 / Day Dong Yoeung Company / Disputed Land / ELCs / ethnic Jarai / ethnic Jarai minority / ethnic Jarai villagers / Forest / land conflicts / land disputes / land protests / Lom village / Lom Village Chief / Lom Villagers / NGO-led Workshop / O’Yadav district / Paknhai commune / Phnom Penh / protests / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Romas Chvat / Sev Hlin / student volunteer program / Stung Treng / Stung Treng Province / UN / United Nations / Vietnamese company / villagers
More than 300 ethnic Jarai families from Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district in longstanding land disputes with two Vietnamese land concessionaires submitted a petition to UN human rights officers yesterday asking for help. Village representative Romas Chvat said locals were participating in an NGO-led workshop on protest ...
Against the Grain
- 30 May 2013
- China Economic Review
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Exports / Imports / Rice / Trade
- agricultural policy / Agriculture & Agri-business / Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy / Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing / Chinese aid / Chinese imports / Chinese rice imports / crops / Exports / grains / Indian aid / international rice trade / Nigeria / Pakistan / rice / rice consumption / rice export / rice farmers / rice imports / Rice Market / rice prices / rice sector / rice trade / Shipments / US Department of Agriculture / USDA
On the palm-studded plains of Cambodia, rice farmers’ eyes light up with the prospect of sending their crop northward to China. The poor Southeast Asian nation had been trying for several years to export rice to the mainland but only last year did it gain ...
http://www.chinaeconomicreview.com/china-rice-demand-market-import
CEDAC Introduces Guidlines
- 30 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economy and commerce
- Cambodian Centre for Study and Development in Agriculture / CEDAC / CEDAC president / Farmers / farming / Farming Techniques / fertilizers / Leaybo Commune / Organic fertilizer / rice / rice harvest / Takeo / Takeo Province / Tramkak District / Trapaing Trach Village / Yang Saing Koma
The Cambodian Centre for Study and Development in Agriculture (CEDAC) yesterday introduced techniques to prepare a good rice harvest for farmers ahead of the rainy season, CEDAC announced. Yang Saing Koma, president of CEDAC, said farmers could improve their harvests if they follow the seven steps. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013053065930/Business/cedac-introduces-guidlines.html
Families seek to Farm Land Claimed by RCAF
- 30 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Rice
- Adhoc / Agriculture & Agri-business / Bantey Meanchey / Bantey Meanchey Province / border issues / border protection / borders / Brigadier General Lanh Kao / Cassava / Chop Vary Commune / crops / Disputed Land / farming / Farmland / General Lanh Kao / harvesting / illegal border crossing / illegal migrant workers / land ownership / Lanh Kao / migrants / migration / Military soldiers / Preah Net Preah / Preah Netr Preah commune / Preah Netr Preah district / RCAF / RCAF artillery unit / RCAF Brigadier General Lanh Kao / RCAF headquarters / RCAF tank unit / rice / Rice Farming / rice paddy / Royal Cambodian Armed Forces / soldiers / Thai Border / Thailand
Some 300 families from Bantey Meanchey province’s Preah Netr Preah district-embroiled in two separate long-running disputes with Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF)-yesterday submitted complaints to the provincial governor asking for permission to temporarily farm on the land until the ownership dispute is resolved, villagers and ...
Firms’ Timber Trade Decried
- 28 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Exports / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Human rights / Land / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Social development / Trade
- Adhoc / Beoung Per / Beoung Per Wildlife Sanctuary / Cambodian Center for Human Rights / CCHR / Chhim Savuth / CRCK / CRCK Company / deforestation / ELCs / ELCs Law / environmental impact / Exports / Forest / Hoeun Sopheap / illegal logging / Illegal poaching / illegal timber trade / Kampong Thom Province / Kampong Thom Provincial Governor / logging / luxury timber / natural resources / Oknha Try Pheap / Preah Vihear / Prey Lang / Prey Lang Community Representative / Prey Long Forest / protected area / protected forest / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Rovieng District / rubber / Rubber plantation / Sandan district / timber / Try Pheap Import and Export / Try Pheap Import Export Co Ltd / Try Pheap Import Export Company / Uth Sam Orn / Vietnamese border / Vietnamese company / Vietnamese rubber company CRCK / water / WaterSHED / wildlife / Wildlife Sanctuary / Wood
Two firms holding concessions in rapidly disappearing northern forests are amassing stockpiles of tens of thousands of luxury logs cut both within and outside their leases and trucking them on to Vietnam, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights has alleged. CCHR investigators that tracked logging operations ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052865880/National/firms-timber-trade-decried.html
Villagers Seize Trucks in Protest
- 28 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Social development
- agro-industry / Boeung Char commune / Community Representative / deforestation / Disputed Land / ELCs / eviction / Farm Land / Forest / Illegal poaching / Kompong Cham / Kompong Cham Province / Korea / Korean company / kratie / Kratie Province / land conflict / Land dispute / Land protest / Land-grabbing / protests / Sam No / Sambor district / Sambor District Governor / Seng Sotha / Stung Treng / Stung Treng Province / Think Biotech / Think Biotech Timber Company / timber / villagers
More than 300 protesters seized two company trucks outside the Kratie office of Korean-owned timber company Think Biotech Co yesterday as protests by villagers who allege land-grabbing continued for a second day. “We have seized the company’s two trucks to ask the company to come ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052865873/National/villagers-seize-trucks-in-protest.html
Vietnam invests in largest sugar project in Cambodia
- 27 May 2013
- VOV News
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Biofuel crops / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Energy / Generation and distribution facilities / Investment / Sugar
- Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam / BIDV / Deputy Prime Minister Yim Chay Ly / Electricity / energy / ethanol / ethanol and thermal power plants / fertilizers / foreign investment / Indian technologies / international fertilizer group / Japanese technologies / job creation / Kamdhenu Ventures Cambodia Limited / Kratie Province / Kratie province military operation / KVCL / Okrieng commune / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Sombour district / sugar / sugarcane / sugarcane factory / thermal power / thermal power plant / Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung / Yim Chay Ly
The largest complex of sugarcane, ethanol and thermal power plants in Cambodia was inaugurated in Okrieng commune, Sombour district, Kratie province on May 26. Addressing the ceremony, Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister Yim Chay Ly emphasized that the complex inauguration in Kratie was the outcome of the ...
Call for Arsenal to Drop Links With Rubber Firm
- 27 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Rubber
- Arsenal / Arsenal Football Club / deforestation / ELCs / football / Global Witness / global witness report / HAGAL chairman Doan Nguyen Duc / HAGL / Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange / Hoang Anh Gia Lai / Ivan Gazidis / job creation / land disputes / Land-grabbing / online petition / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / rubber / Rubber Barons / Rubber Barons report / Rubber Companies / Taxes / Vietnamese rubber company
An online petition has been launched calling on English Premier League football club Arsenal to break its ties with a Vietnamese rubber company accused of land grabbing and deforestation in Cambodia. A report by London-based Global Witness this month named Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) as ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/call-for-arsenal-to-drop-links-with-rubber-firm-26801/
Villagers Camp Out to Protest ‘Land Grab’
- 27 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Land / Land tenure and land titling
- Boeung Char commune / CPP / deforestation / Disputed Land / ELCs / evictions / Farmland / Forest / forest land / Illegal poaching / Kampong Cham / Kang Meng / Kim Lour / Kompong Cham Province / Korea / Korean company / kratie / Kratie Province / land conflict / Land dispute / Land protest / Land titles / Land-grabbing / protests / Sambor district / Sok Chenda / student volunteer program / Think Biotech / Think Biotech Timber Company / timber / villagers
More than 100 people from two communes in Kratie province’s Sambor district gathered yesterday for a three-day protest in front of the provincial office of Think Biotech, a Korean-owned timber company villagers say is encroaching on their land. As of yesterday evening, 10 armed policemen ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052765854/National/villagers-camp-out-to-protest-land-grab.html
NGOs Assessing Development Goals for Coming Years
- 24 May 2013
- VOA Khmer
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economy and commerce / Education and training / Education policy and administration / Environment and natural resources / Human rights / Social development
- Agricultural markets / Agriculture & Agri-business / Battambang / Battambang Province / Cambodian development / Cooperation Committee for Cambodia / Cooperation Committee for Cambodia representative Sam Ly / Development / development goals / Economic growth / education / extractive industries / farming / government accountability / Human Rights / judicial system / Kampong Cham / Kampong Cham Province / natural resource extraction / natural resources / NGO Forum / NGO Forum deputy director Tek Vannara / Phnom Penh / Sam Ly / Sam Rainsy Party / social inclusion / Tek Vannara / transparency / UN / UN Millennium Development Goals / United Nations
As Cambodia assesses its development goals, a study has found that many Cambodians want to see an improved judicial system, better education, improved agriculture and more human rights. A broad consortium of local and international development agencies spent the early part of the year conducting conferences ...
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/ngo-assessing-development-goals-for-coming-years/1667239.html
AEON widens HP to farmers
- 23 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Banking and financial services / Economy and commerce / Investment
- Aeon / AEON Microfinance (Cambodia) Co Ltd / agriculture sector / Bun Mony / Cambodia Microfinance Association and chairman / cultivators / Daisuke Maeda / electrical appliances / farmer / hire purchase / HP / Japan’s AEON Group / loans / managing director Daisuke Maeda / MFI / MFI market / Microfinance / motorbike / Sathapana Ltd / Srey Chanthy
AEON Microfinance (Cambodia) Co Ltd says it has expanded its installment payment services into the agricultural sector, a new business type industry insiders say could be successful, but will still not be enough to strengthen one of Cambodia’s most crucial economic sectors. “We will co-operate with ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052365789/Business/aeon-widens-hp-to-farmers.html
CNRP Lawmaker Visits Controversial Plantation
- 22 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Community forest / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forest classifications / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber / National parks and wildlife sanctuaries / Public land lease / Rubber / Social development
- Adhoc / Cambodia National Rescue Party / CNRP / CNRP law maker Son Chhay / Company 72 / degraded forests / Disputed Land / ELCs / ethic Jarai minority / ethnic Jarai minorities / ethnic minority land / Forests / Human Rights / illegal logging / illegal logging trade / indigenous people / indigenous peoples land / indigenous peoples rights / Jarai / Jarai community / Land concessions / logging / National Assembly / O’Yadaw district / opposition law maker Son Chhay / Plantations / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / rubber / rubber firms / Rubber plantation / Son Chhay / Vietnamese rubber firm
Opposition lawmaker Son Chhay said yesterday that he would ask the government to cancel the land concession of a Vietnamese rubber firm in Ratanakkiri province he accused of logging and exporting wood illegally. Mr. Chay, a candidate in July’s national election for the Cambodia National Rescue ...
Students Protest At UN Envoy’s University Lecture
- 22 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Education and training / Higher education / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
- Cambodian Mekong University / CMU / CMU university students / Disputed Land / ELCs / foreign investment / Human Rights / human rights report / international investors / international law / Investment / Land rights / law of foreign investment / Phnom Penh / protests / Royal University of Law and Economics / Special Rapporteur Surya Subedi / students / Surya Subedi / U.N. / UN / UN Envoy to Cambodia / UN Envoy to Cambodia Suyrya Subedi / UN Special Rapporteur / UN special rapporteur on human rights / UN Special Rapporteur Surya Subedi / UN Special Rapporteur to Cambodia / United Nations / University of Leeds
U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi on Tuesday received a thorny reception from hundreds of students at a Phnom Penh university, who angrily questioned his impartiality and unfurled banners calling for him to end his work in Cambodia. Special rapporteur Subedi delivered a lecture to about ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/students-protest-at-un-envoys-university-lecture-25855/
Officials in ‘contract’ farms drive
- 22 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural commodities, processing and products / Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Banking and financial services / Economy and commerce / Investment
- AFD / Agence Francaise de Developpement / Agricultural Production / Contract farming / contract farming project / farmer / farmers’ organisations / farming / fragrant rice / Lay Sokkheang / Lim Bunheng / Loran Import-Export Co Ltd / Mao Thora / Milled Rice / Ministry of Agriculture / Ministry of Commerce / paddy rice / rice / rice exporter / SNEC / Supreme National Economic Council
Officials are seeking expert firms to implement projects on so-called contract farming and the enhancement of the involvement of farmers’ organisations in paddy collecting and processing, officials said. Contract farming is an agreement on agricultural production carried out between a farmer and buyers, which establishes conditions ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052265766/Business/officials-in-contract-farms-drive.html
Dad ‘Threatened’ by Court
- 22 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease
- Adhoc / Adhoc Provincial Coordinator Chhay Thy / Chhay Thy / Disputed Land / DM Group / DM Group Company / economic land concession / ELCs / Eng Chamnag / Farmland / land clearing / Land rights / Ratanakkiri provincial court / Ratanakkiri Provincial Court Judge / Rattanakiri / Rattanakiri province / rubber / Rubber DM Group Company / Rubber plantation / Ry Sarun
The father of three youths allegedly beaten by DM Group workers earlier this month said court officers yesterday threatened to imprison him if he did not agree to compromise with the company and drop the case. Ry Sarun appeared at Ratanakkiri Provincial Court yesterday to answer ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052265776/National/dad-threatened-by-court.html
Cambodia launches cassava development project under China, UNDP support
- 21 May 2013
- Xinhuanet News
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Biofuel crops / Chinese aid / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Exports / Non-DAC members / Trade
- agricultural crop / Agriculture & Agri-business / Agro-Business / Cassava / cassava chips / cassava crop / cassava cultivation / cassava development project / cassava farmers / cassava sector / China's Ministry of Commerce department of international trade and economic affairs / Chinese aid / Chinese Ministry of Commerce / department of international trade and economic affairs / Economic Development / Employment / Export / first secretary Lu Zhouxiang / Lu Zhouxiang / Minister of Agriculture secretary of state Teng Lao / Ministry of Agriculture / poverty reduction / Protocol on the Exports of Cambodian Cassava to Chinese Market / Teng Lao / Thailand / UNDP / UNDP to Cambodia country director Setsuko Yamazaki / United Nations Development Program / value chain
Cambodia launched Tuesday the second phase of cassava development project under the support of China and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Cambodia and China signed a Protocol on the Exports of Cambodian Cassava to Chinese Market in December 2010, under which China allowed Cambodia ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-05/21/c_132397799.htm
Agriculture needs more loans, irrigation systems, experts say
- 20 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Banking and financial services / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Rice
- ACLEDA Bank / agricultural organisation / Agriculture & Agri-business / agriculture sector / Cambodia Chamber of Commerce / canal water / CEDAC / CEDAC president / crop / crop yields / cultivable areas / Farmers / financial / irrigation / irrigation system / Lim Heng / Lim Kean Hor / loan / low-interest loans / Minister of Water Resources and Metrology / private sector development / rainfall / rice / rice cultivation / rice sector / Srey Chanthy / Yang Saing Koma
Accessing low-interest loans for rice cultivation is a challenge because the industry in Cambodia is dependant upon rainfall and not irrigation and is thus more risky, experts said last week. In a meeting on the private sector development in the rice sector, Lim Heng, vice president ...
Troubled Village Embroiled In New Land Disputes
- 20 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Rubber / Social development / Social land concessions
- agro-industry companies / Appeal Court / Beehive Radio / Beehive radio owner Mam Sonando / broma / Broma village / Casotim / Cham / Chan Kong / community forest / Court of Appeal / Disputed Land / ELCs / ethnic Cham minorities / Farmland / forced evictions / forest clearing / Heng Chantha / kratie / Kratie district governor / Kratie district governor Sam Sarith / Kratie Province / Kratie provincial government department of land management / Mam Sonando / Phnom Penh Municipal Court / Pro Ma / Pro Mar / rubber / Rubber plantation / Sam Sarith / social land concessions
A year after a massive military raid here that left a 14-year old girl dead and hundreds of families evicted, there remains little sign of the original land dispute that turned this rural village into a hotbed of agitation. But a new firm and a government-issued ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/troubled-village-embroiled-in-new-land-disputes-25184/
Trade Deal Threat Still On Table
- 20 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Crop products and commodities / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / European Union aid / Exports / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Sugar / Trade
- Cambodian Trade Minister Cham Prasidh / Cham Prasidh / Convention Concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment / Disputed Land / Eang Vuthy / EBA / economic land concession / Economic Land Concessions (ELCs) / ELC / ELCs / Equitable Cambodia / European Commission / European Commission Member / European Commission Vice President / European Parliament / European Union aid / Everything But Arms / International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights / Jean-Francois Cautain / Kampong Speu / Karel De Gucht / Katherine Ashton / Land rights / Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh / NGOs / no-tariff agreement / sugar / sugar industry / Trade / trade deals
The European union’s executive arm has responded to its parliamentarians’ concerns over rights abuses stemming from Cambodia’s economic land concessions, maintaining that, should the need arise, it “will be ready” to withdraw from its preferential trade agreements with the Kingdom. In a joint letter to concerned ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052065716/National/trade-deal-threat-still-on-table.html
Pheapimex Opponent Arrested
- 20 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease
- Bin Vanna / Cambodian Peace Network / Disputed Land / Economic Land Concessions (ELCs) / ELCs / Fraud / Krakor district / Krakor District Police Chief Bin Vanna / Kuch Veng / Land dispute / land eviction / Land-grabbing / Lun Sivy / Pheapimex / Pheapimex Company / Pheapimex Group / Pursat / Pursat Province / Tycoons
A well-known community representative who has long battled alleged land-grabbing by economic land concessionaire Pheapimex Group was arrested on fraud accusations and jailed in Pursat province’s Krakor district yesterday.Fellow community representative Lun Sivy, 42, said Kuch Veng, a member of the Cambodian Peace Network, was ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052065715/National/pheapimex-opponent-arrested.html
Ethnic villagers, firm battle over Ratanakkiri plot
- 20 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Investment / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
- Adhoc / Bakeo district / Chhay Thy / ethnic minority / Keh Chung commune / Keh Chung commune chief / land conflict / Land dispute / land title / Land-grabbing / lawsuit / Ly Sokkim Co Ltd / Ministry of Commerce / Par Or Adhoc provincial co-ordinator Chhay Thy / ratanak kiri / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri court / Rocham Lai / Tompuon / warrant
A local official and four ethnic minority Tompuon villagers appeared in a Ratanakkiri court on Friday to face accusations of land-grabbing and protesting against a private company that purchased their land in 2007, authorities said yesterday. Rocham Pheun, an assistant to the chief of Keh Chung ...
EU Won’t Investigate Land Concessions—for Now
- 20 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Crop products and commodities / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / European Union aid / Exports / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development / Sugar / Trade
- Cambodian Government / Catherine Ashton / duty free goods / duty-free access / EBA / Economics / ELCs / EU / EU duty free access / EU foreign affairs representative / EU high representative for foreign affairs Catherine Ashton / EU high representative for security policy / EU high representative for security policy Catherine Ashton / EU trade commissioner / European Commission / European Council / European Council President Herman van Rompuy / European Parliament / European Union aid / European Union foreign affairs representative / European Union trade commissioner / Everything but Arms trade agreement / Everything but arms trade scheme / Everything But Arms Treaty / Exports / garment sector / garments / garments industry / Generalized System of Preferences / GSP / Herman Van Rompuy / Human Rights / Hun Sen / Karel De Gucht / Koh Kong / Koh Kong Province / Land titles / London / Prime Minister Hun Sen / RGC / Royal Government of Cambodia / sugar / sugar plantations / Surya Subedi / Tate & Lyle / Trade EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht / trade partners / U.N.’s special rapporteur on human rights to Cambodia Surya Subedi / UK / UN special rapporteur on human rights / UN special rapporteur on human rights to Cambodia / UN special rapporteur on human rights to Cambodia Surya Subedi / United Kingdom
The trade commissioner and foreign affairs representative of the European Union (E.U.) have turned down a request from 13 members of the European Parliament that they immediately investigate Cambodia’s much criticized economic land concessions, but said they were monitoring the issue closely. In a March letter ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eu-wont-investigate-land-concessions-for-now-25194/